Astronomy

A widely used artificial sweetener increases brain activity in regions involved in appetite, suggesting it makes people hungrier

A widely used artificial sweetener increases brain activity in regions involved in appetite, suggesting it makes people hungrier

'Strange New Worlds' Season 3 is coming soon, so why not crack open this thrilling new 'Star Trek' book to set the mood?

Alongside this exciting teaser for 'Black Mirror 'Season 7, which launches on April 10, we also have details on this week’s 'USS Callister: Into Infinity' virtual watch party on April 8.

New James Webb Space Telescope images of the stellar nursery Sgr C, near the galactic center, reveal why it contains fewer stars than expected.

The Helix nebula may point to the ultimate fate of our sun — and Earth.

Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first contact and also hint at the point of language itself

An innovative proposal would be a first for planetary exploration. Turns out, it’s as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing momentum from a launch starting point on Earth. It can take missions several years and planetary flybys before capture and arrival in orbit around Mercury or Venus. Now, a new proposal would see a mission make the trip, using innovative and fuel efficient means.

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – and used to power – a moon base of the future

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – and used to power – a moon base of the future

Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blow to the agency's efforts to manage rising temperatures made worse by climate change

The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a conservation program that dropped fostered wolf pups into wild dens. Then politics happened.

Constructing solar arrays out of moon dust would reduce launch costs and make lunar bases more plausible, according to a new study.

A fall of rare meteorites in Costa Rica has revealed new details about a similar space rock that fell in Australia 50 years earlier.

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could affect the unparalleled observatory

Beginning in the 1930s, the work—and eventually the life—of Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, became threatened by the country’s then new dictator

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

To protect democracy and counteract the allure of authoritarianism, reduce people's sense of fear and insecurity, psychology research says

New NASA shielding technology that protects against damaging lunar dust just passed a trial run on the moon, marking an important milestone in the agency's lunar aspirations.