At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

Astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under lights designed to simulate ...

Since 2015, students from across the USA have been partnering with scientists at NASA to advance research on growing plants in space, ultimately to feed astronauts on long-distance space missions, as ...

Researchers think that microgravity could help grow liver "organoids" that could be used in medical research and even in ...

New science experiments for NASA are set to launch aboard the agency’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission to ...

Dr. Tammy T. Chang of the University of California, San Francisco, is leading a research project that uses the microgravity ...

Scientists are sending stem cells into orbit where the forces of gravity won't interfere with how they cells proliferate and assemble into small organ-like clusters.

Hazelwood Elementary School now has a piece of NASA's Artemis 1 mission. The school was one of 1,300 to receive a "moon tree" from NASA. As part of the Artemis 1 mission, 1,300 seedlings were stored ...

TOI-6651b is a unique exoplanet, weighing around 60 times the mass of Earth and having a radius approximately five times ...

It was not until decades later, when I read Rachel Carson’s The Sea All Around Us, that I learned about the Sargasso Sea. It ...

Midwest students don't often get a chance to study the wonders of marine biology. SIU - Carbondale is working to change that.

The year 2023 was the hottest on record for Earth. April 2024 was Earth’s warmest month and the 11th consecutive month of record-breaking global warmth.