Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory. Far from the ...

This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light ... Jan. 28, 2025 — As humankind imagines living off-planet -- on the moon, Mars and beyond -- the question of how to sustain life ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Micrometer-sized, flower-shaped structures made of a nickel-iron alloy can locally enhance magnetic fields by concentrating field lines at their center. The ...

Back in 1832, the celebrated British physicist, Michael Faraday, carried out a set of experiments designed to answer a tantalizing question: could electricity be generated by Earth's rotation through ...

An open-transmit and 24-channel flexible receiver head coil enhances ultrahigh-field fMRI, enabling sub-millimeter resolution for somatosensory and motor cortex mapping, advancing neuroscience and ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

The James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have captured Neptune’s auroras for the first time, revealing the planet’s ...

Slideshows ...

American students have been falling behind in math for decades—with test scores that consistently rank in the bottom 25% globally compared to students in other developed countries—and the ...