The Mast Is Raised for NASA's Mars 2020 Rover

Engineers at JPL take a group selfie after attaching the remote sensing mast to…

How an Atomic Clock Will Get Humans to Mars on Time

JPL navigators Todd Ely and Jill Seubert fly rovers to Mars. Now the pair…

As The 50th Anniversary Of Apollo 11 Nears, New Books Highlight The Mission's Legacy

These works make apparent how singular an achievement America’s moon landing was — and show that…

What drives Yellowstone's massive elk migrations?

Yellowstone’s migratory elk rely primarily on environmental cues, including a retreating snowline and the greening grasses…

Using waves to move droplets

Using a technique called mechanowetting, researchers have come up with a way of transporting droplets by…

Electron (or 'hole') pairs may survive effort to kill superconductivity

The emergence of unusual metallic state supports the role of ‘charge stripes’ in the formation of…

Electron (or 'hole') pairs may survive effort to kill superconductivity

Scientists seeking to understand the mechanism underlying superconductivity in “stripe-ordered” cuprates—copper-oxide materials with alternating areas of…

The mast is raised for NASA's Mars 2020 rover

In this image, taken on June 5, 2019, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,…

NOAA: 260 dolphins dead on Gulf Coast, triple usual number

Authorities say more than 260 dolphins have stranded across the U.S. Gulf Coast since Feb. 1,…

Grounding of Boeing plane hovers over big air show in Paris

Uncertainty over a Boeing jet and apprehension about the global economy hover over the aircraft industry…