According to Space.com and Cornell University, NASA astronauts conducted a microbe-based meteorite mining experiment aboard the International Space Station to study mineral extraction in microgravity.

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- April's total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new spacecraft and telescopes, and cosmic chance. The moon will be extra close to Earth, providing ...

Wringing out clues that could change everything.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) -- The idea of putting a man on the moon was a revolutionary proposal in 1961-- that ambitious goal was achieved in 1969. The last person to go to the moon was 46 years ago ...

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NASA and the Italian Space Agency's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment succeeded in its first attempt to acquire Earth-based navigation signals from the moon on March 3, 2025. Credit: NASA / Dave Ryan ...

NASA presents a plan to explore the interior of the Moon using robotic experiments, without the need for astronauts.

Unusual experiments with drug-influenced spiders revealed that caffeine distorted web-building more than any other substance, ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind smashes into the lunar ...

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