A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis (TB ...

When quantum particles work together, they can produce signals far stronger than any one particle could generate alone. This ...

As lunar missions increase, scientists warn that spacecraft exhaust may contaminate sensitive regions of the moon faster than ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

For large Main Belt asteroids, that break-apart point was set at a spin period of about 2.2 hours – a hard limit suggested by theory in the 1990s and then confirmed in 2000 by observations of the Main ...

A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, ...

Mammals aren’t known for the ocular regenerative powers, but a new study shows that nature has a few tricks up its sleeve.

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

Duke University engineers are using artificial intelligence to do something scientists have chased for centuries; turn messy, real-world motion into simple rules you can write down. The work comes ...

By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...