Thousands of mysterious clay mounds found on Mars were formed by ancient water on the Red Planet's barren northern plains, ...

It has been a trying time for NASA, what with astronauts suspended in space and an order to shut down its diversity programs. But there is good news coming from the small Mars rover Curiosity. A new ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

As the world embraces plant-based climate solutions, a new study reveals their unintended impact on biodiversity.

Effective solutions to the vast amounts of plastic waste we produce are still being sought, and four innocuous insects that ...

Complex organisms, thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, can shape massive ecosystems and influence the fate of ...

There might be a type of exoplanet without dry land. They’re called “Hycean” worlds, a portmanteau of ‘hydrogen’ and ‘ocean.’ ...

These and other major medical breakthroughs exist in large part thanks to a major division of the National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research on the planet.

Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion Agencies are gripped with uncertainty about how to implement a blizzard of President Trump’s new policies as workers ...

To tackle a backlog in toxicity testing, US federal scientists are modernizing programs with high-throughput assays and AI.