Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands ...

Artemis II’s journey around the moon, scheduled to conclude on Friday, has delivered stunning new images of our home world ...

When astronauts return to the moon for the first time in more than half a century, a Northern Arizona University scientist will be helping guide their every move. Kristen Bennett, a planetary ...

Gravity, as most people understand it, is the familiar force that pulls a falling apple toward Earth. But for astronomers and ...

UNL doctoral student Kierstin Blomberg was selected for the 2026 AMS Science Policy Colloquium, linking her atmospheric ...

Floating in near-weightless conditions can be disorienting for even the most experienced astronauts. Male reproductive cells—sperm—also seem to get confused in simulated microgravity, which has ...

Space agencies are preparing for longer missions, with NASA’s Artemis program and future Mars plans aiming to extend human ...

An Amazonian bird turned out to be five distinct species; two of them were previously unknown to the scientific community.

A new study, published in the Biodiversity Data Journal, provides a profound look at life up to nearly 10 kilometers below ...

With 15,000 satellites crowding the sky and hundreds of thousands more planned, we may soon have a cataclysmic mess overhead.

Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a strange, diverse ...