Science

Stone’s remarkable tenure on NASA’s longest-operating mission spans decades of historic discoveries and firsts. Edward Stone has retired as the project scientist for NASA’s Voyager mission a...

The rover will abrade a rock this week, allowing scientists and engineers to decide whether that target would withstand its powerful drill. In its search...

“Now is a critical time,” Israeli Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz said as the 56-year-old got a COVID-19 booster shot on 13 August, the...

In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate...

The agency’s newest rover is trekking across the Martian landscape using a newly enhanced auto-navigation system. NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on Mars, the Perseverance rover, is beginning...

Why do some science instruments detect the gas on the Red Planet while others don’t? Reports of methane detections at Mars have captivated scientists and...

A Perseverance rover scientist’s favorite shot from the young Mars mission provides a new angle on an old and intriguing surface feature. Ask any space...

The infrared space telescope is designed to help advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts. NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) to...

The science team is studying the clouds, which arrived earlier and formed higher than expected, to learn more about the Red Planet. Cloudy days are...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. If...