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…

The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere

Tech billionaires are building a wireless, orbiting internet accessible in even the deepest jungle. The first…

Nuclear 'magic numbers' collapse beyond the doubly magic nickel 78

Scientists have demonstrated that nickel 78, a neutron-rich ‘doubly magic’ isotope of nickel with 28 protons…