Missing tape discovery solves 40-year lunar mystery
Traces of the Apollo astronauts’ presence lingered long after they left.
This scientist chases wildfires to better predict fire behavior
To know what a wildfire might do next, researchers need to know how an inferno interacts with the atmosphere.
These tiny worms can survive forces 400,000 times stronger than Earth’s gravity
New findings give some weight to the idea that life was blasted here from another planet.
Effort to diversify medical research raises thorny questions of race
A federal study aiming to collect the health information of one million U.S. residents is limited by the very problems it hopes to solve.
Solar geoengineering would ease heat stress, but also block vital sunlight for plants, according to a new study published Wednesday.
Deep beneath the frigid surface of its southern ice cap, Mars holds a lake of liquid water nearly three times larger than the island of Manhattan.
A new study shows ozone levels in National Parks are similar to the levels in the largest U.S. cities. But most of this ozone may originate outside of the parks.
Oumuamua is almost certainly a comet, albeit one fittingly alien from those we find orbiting the sun, according to a new study published Wednesday.
If all goes according to plan, two spacecraft will commence close encounters with two asteroids by the end of August, in order to retrieve organic materials dating back to the solar system’s birth.
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