The discovery that molecules of methane and ethane can worm their way into the crystal lattice of frozen hydrogen cyanide has ...

In 2012, a US research team succeeded in propping up a 4.35-ton replica of a moai statue and making it “walk.” The technique, in which two teams using ropes tugged the statue in opposite directions to ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

The federal government has been—and must remain—a critical partner in foundational technological innovation and research ...

A NASA study shows bacteria fragments can survive 50 million years in Martian ice. Pure ice, not rock, could hold clues to ...

Titan’s harsh chemistry breaks basic rules, offering new clues about how life’s building blocks might form in space.

Scientists have found that on Titan, substances that should remain separate can actually combine under freezing conditions.

For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay ...

It’s a cosmic puzzle piece that doesn’t seem to belong to any known set. We all know the Moon has a side that always faces away from us, but it turns out that far side might be hiding something ...

Scientists from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and NASA have made a surprising discovery on Saturn’s largest ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Impossible molecular combinations are possible on Saturn’s moon Titan, changing our understanding the potentially ...