A suite of scientific balloons is about to lift off from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility’s field site in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, carrying instruments that will help scientists understand ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments that recreate the conditions of Saturn's moon Titan in a tiny vial. The ...

In a major milestone for space technology, China has successfully fired a precision laser across 80,778 miles (130,000 km) of ...