Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A new study ...

And with that beginning came an ancient, renewed question: if there was a starting point, who or what started it?This ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

Edwin Lyman is the director of Nuclear Power Safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Climate and Energy program. He is a co-author (with David Lochbaum and Susan Q. Stranahan) of the book ...

The move is part of the government's plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate ...

Despite still preforming effective science, Hubble’s mirror flaw affected confidence in NASA and the telescope became famous for its blurred images. SM1 helped rebuild confidence in NASA and Hubble as ...

Adding to the findings of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission, experts found what initiated a liquid past and how it evolved.

In this week’s edition of Science for All, Priyali Prakash explains how lunar dust simulants affect human lungs.

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...