Recent experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that some microbes can harvest valuable rare-earth elements from rocks, even when exposed to...
New flight patterns cut survey time from 2 days to just 3 hours
A super-eruption at Yellowstone volcano 2.1 million years ago occurred over decades, and not a single explosive event lasting hours or days, as researchers have...
The icy Jupiter moon Europa is an astrobiological beacon, quite literally glowing in the deep darkness far from the sun, a new study suggests.Jupiter's
A SpaceX Crew Dragon is going to carry four humans to space as part of the first operational mission leaving US shores in almost a decade.
Researchers have developed a soft fabric robotic gripper that behaves like an elephant's trunk to grasp, pick up and release objects without breaking them.
New research involving CRISPR technology has furthered our understanding of corals' gene functions. Specifically, it has revealed a mechanism underpinning how corals...
These are the best alternatives to disposable plastic water bottles.
It’s kind of hard to believe that, of all the wheeled rovers and robots that have been sent from Earth to other places — three crewed...
We know that Mars was once much wetter than it is now, but the questions of when water formed and evaporated away are much more difficult...