Scientific discoveries, space, environment and research news.
758 articles
NASA knocked an asteroid off course in 2022 in a pioneering test of humanity's ability to defend Earth. Its spacecraft's impact pushed the space rock into a slightly different orbit around the Sun, according…
The nebula was formed when a star went supernova 5,000 light-years from Earth.
A new analysis finds that global warming has significantly accelerated since 2015, but not everyone agrees.
A mummified woman from Siberia holds an unexpected treasure, tattoos that have been preserved for over two millennia. What did they mean, and how were they created?
As Anthropic releases its most autonomous agents yet, a mounting clash with the military reveals the impossible choice between global scaling and a "safety first" ethos
What scientists have uncovered about Venus could change the entire way we view the planet, but the full extent of this discovery is still unfolding.
Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering grounds. Now, scientists have developed a way to see and identify many of those birds for the first time.
Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.
The Peruvian desert has kept its greatest mystery hidden for 2,000 years, concealing ancient inscriptions from all human expeditions, until an advanced AI system has scanned the desert.
Scientists are piecing together what they learned from the quake and the 4000-plus aftershocks that continue to rattle the landscape
March 7, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.
Paleontologists have identified a new, giant species of the mosasaur genus Pluridens from the Late Cretaceous phosphate deposits of Morocco.
Underwater earthquakes in Antarctica can trigger massive phytoplankton blooms, linking deep-sea seismic activity to ocean life.
Discover how NASA’s DART mission moved beyond its initial goal, shifting the entire Didymos asteroid system’s orbit around the sun. Learn how this breakthrough proves humanity's ability to protect Earth through planetary defense.
An extraordinary rhino fossil found in the Arctic is reshaping everything we know about prehistoric life and evolution.
"Mission teams are working hard to recover the situation."
THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED ON MARCH 6, 2026 This Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) solicitations page compiles the opportunities to collaborate with NASA’s aeronautical innovators and/or contribute to their research to enable new and improved air transportation systems. Most opportunities t
The month of March could be an opportune time to catch a northern lights display.
Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft will launch in April to the orbital laboratory on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for NASA. The mission is known as NAS
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled sweeping changes to the Artemis program, aimed at restoring momentum,…
Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago. During a period geologists call Snowball Earth, ice sheets crept from the poles all the way to the tropics, covering the oceans and c…
"We are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more massive, spinning faster, and are more astrophysically interesting and unusual."
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their rotation patterns as they age, with poles rotating faster than…