On December 13, a rocket rose from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China carrying an unusual passenger: a butterfly inside a chrysalis, mid-transformation. Weeks later, images ...

The California startup Vast has opened a call for scientific research aboard its Haven-1 private space station, which is set ...

Research conducted partly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) suggests that "microgravity" could help scientists fight drug-resistant superbugs, according to a report from SWNS. Microgravity ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

A crew of tiny worms will be heading on a mission to the International Space Station in 2026 that will help scientists understand how humans can travel through space safely, using a Leicester-built ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

A SpaceX rocket launched on Friday headed to the International Space Station for an eight-month science mission, NASA reported in a statement.

ELI BUNT OF Middlebury, left, Lyxi Cunningham of Waterbury and River Miles-Rowe of North Ferrisburgh are the team at the Lake Champlain Waldorf School who are building an experiment that NASA will put ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.