In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable ...

It would orbit within Alpha Centauri A’s habitable zone, the starlight-bathed region where liquid water can persist on a ...

Five years ago electrical engineer Sun Hongbin was given what many would consider an impossible task: build a full-fledged ...

Solar panels, wind turbines, a hydrogen energy system and lithium-ion batteries are powering China’s newest polar research ...

As Maryland pushes for more solar energy projects, some people worry about the unknown long-term implications of this green ...

For millennia, Venus has graced our skies as the brilliant "Morning Star" or "Evening Star," its dazzling presence inspiring ...

I coauthored a paper on a microbe that might incorporate arsenic in its major molecules. It was wrongly retracted. What can ...

The Perseids are usually active between July and late August, but the shower will peak on Aug. 12 or 13 as Earth crosses the thickest part of comet Swift-Tuttle's debris trail. Swift-Tuttle was last ...

In the early 1990s, computer scientist Mark Weiser imagined a future of ubiquitous computing, where technology would ...

Mars remains an evening fixture, Saturn is nearing opposition, and Venus and Jupiter meet in the predawn sky Aug. 12.

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The first moon landing under NASA’s return-to-the-moon program, known as Artemis, is scheduled for 2027, but many experts ...