NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

We’ve all been there. You start feeling off, so you decide to Google your symptoms. Suddenly, WebMD has you convinced that ...

On day one of this administration, the president included his ambitions for Mars in his inaugural address, and again several weeks later to a joint session of Congress: “We are going to conquer the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On December 5, 2020, a small capsule jettisoned from Japan’s ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has yielded the largest galaxy group sample ever observed after scanning a region known as the COSMOS Web, offering a large-scale look at the universe and illuminating ...

This mosaic is made up of more than 100 images captured by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter, which operated around Mars from 1976 to 1980. The scar across the center of the planet is the vast Valles Marineris ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its 26th collected rock sample, named “Silver Mountain,” using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera, located inside the rover’s underbelly.

NASA has announced an overhaul to its plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth. Agency officials have decided to scrap parts of their original plan to cut down on the difficulty and cost. Instead ...