A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualized the inner workings of hundreds of ...

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is passing Earth. Scientists have studied using nuclear explosions to deflect comets. The goal is not to destroy but to vaporize surface material. This process, called ...

A trio of meteor showers sends flashes of light across our skies this month, and the first week will feature the largest and ...

The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to ...

A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

A new report offers the latest confirmation of 3I/ATLAS and its interstellar origins, as scientists still debate over its unusual properties.

To be completely fair, Goddard’s footprint did need modernization. The campus master plan—begun years ago—imagined a 20-year cycle of demolitions, renovations, and new builds. The idea: retire the ...