SpaceX has released a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how it creates its stylish, cutting-edge space suits entirely in-house.
Every year, residents who live near the banks of the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska know that sometime in summer, their streets will flood. At some...
The best-known particle in the lepton family is the electron, a key building block of matter and central to our understanding of electricity. But the electron...
Tiny quantum fluctuations in the early universe explain two major mysteries about the large-scale structure of the universe, in a cosmic tango of the very small...
NASA's next-generation Mars rover Perseverance blasts off from Cape Canaveral on a $US2.4 billion mission to search for traces of potential past life on Earth's planetary...
In research that aims to illuminate the causes of human developmental disorders, Salk scientists have generated 168 new maps of chemical marks on strands of DNA—called...
Bacteria—tiny and in some cases deadly single-celled organisms—are far more complex than commonly thought.
NASA launches the biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built as part of an ambitious project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth.
An international team of astronomers, including Lowell Observatory, recently made a mindblowing discovery of shredded ‘globular cluster’ that lies in the Phoenix constellation.They have discovered a...
Not all ice ages are similarly brutal. In the most excessive glaciation activities identified to science, ice stretches out from...