Elementary school students in Boise got a glimpse of outer space life. NASA astronaut Don Pettit video chatted with students about the International Space Station.
LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, launched to the ISS on Nov. 5 last year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was ...
The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope can be made in a few hours and for a fraction of the cost of traditional ones.
From Japan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon.
NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...
The story introduces a simulated gravitationless environment—a concept that, while seemingly futuristic, has roots in ...
The American Historical Association, the largest association of professional historians in the U.S., passed a resolution this ...
With a surface area more than twice that of Greater London's, A23a is the biggest iceberg on the planet, having calved from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. The frozen leviathan is now on the ...
In our most popular video, Science News Explores assistant managing editor Maria Temming explains that a high dose of the drug can temporarily scramble a person’s unique default brain activity.
Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Full credit at bottom of article Joe Spring and Carlyn Kranking This year, Smithsonian magazine published more than 900 science ... of the world’s oldest ...
Two Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station have broken the world record for the longest single spacewalk, set more than two decades ago by the US space programme. The previous record ...