How our brain generates consciousness — and loses it

In a first of its kind study, researchers have used cellular resolution in vivo two-photon calcium…

InSight Lander Captures a Sunset on Mars

NASA’s InSight lander used the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) on the end of its robotic arm…

InSight Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Mars

InSight joins the rest of NASA’s Red Planet surface missions, all of which have…

Surprisingly wet asteroid dust could spark a rethink of Earth's water

Samples of space dust from the Hayabusa mission to the asteroid Itokawa are far less dry…

Denisovans: Primitive humans lived at high altitudes

Scientists find evidence an ancient human species called a Denisovan lived at high altitudes in Tibet. …

Human influence on global droughts goes back 100 years, NASA study finds

Human-generated greenhouse gases and atmospheric particles were affecting global drought risk as far back as the…

Water found in samples from asteroid Itokawa

Cosmochemists have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an…

Trilobites: A Violent Splash of Magma That May Have Made the Moon

The object thought to have formed our lunar companion may have smashed into a baby Earth…

Trilobites: Gas That Makes a Mountain Breathe Fire Is Turning Up Around the World

A group of scientists have found unusual types of methane escaping from the deep earth in…

From the archives: How do you get astronauts back from space?

50 years ago, the Apollo missions were gearing up to put a human on the moon…