It's been more than 50 years since the Apollo missions, and in that time, chemical analyses of the recovered lunar materials have revolutionized our understanding of...
A permeable heart with a hardened facade—the resting place of Rosetta's lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is revealing more about the interior of the "rubber duck" shaped-body...
NASA’s recently launched Perseverance Mars rover is being fueled by U.S.-made plutonium.
NASA’s facility navigates COVID-19 and dangerous weather.
The former head of NASA’s human spaceflight program cautioned against ending the International Space Station prematurely.
Massive stars are larger than about 10 times the mass of the Sun and are born far less often than their low mass counterparts. However, they...
The texts were written on silk and buried in a tomb.
If you had been in Pompeii in 79 AD, you might have tried to hunker down or escape by sea. This would be a mistake. But...
A new SQUID for nanostructures.
Based on data from China's Chang'e-4 probe, Chinese scientists have determined the thickness of the regolith and revealed the fine subsurface structures and evolutionary history of...