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 ...

Can we use fungus to mine precious metals from asteroids?

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 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, ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars. Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, ...