To help with its plans for long-term lunar visits and missions to Mars, NASA is putting together a year-long virtual program and looking for volunteers.
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Harvard is one of the most elite universities in the world, but its rejection rate is nothing compared to NASA's exclusive astronaut program.
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Space missions come with certain dangers, including a lack of supplies. But a new study has shown that astronauts may be able to grow those supplies themselves.
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Materials sciences aren't exactly glamorous, but a new type of concrete could impact your life in a big way if it gets out of the prototype stage.
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Wind turbines wear down over time, and when the blades are retired, they need to go somewhere. A company in Europe may have found just the place for them.
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With the confluence of population growth, climate change, and urbanization, heat islands are becoming a phenomenon that will affect most people.
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If you've ever been around an electrical short, you may have noticed a sharp metallic smell, but is that the electricity itself, or something else?
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Solar power can cut energy bills, but hidden costs and practical complications may affect whether installing panels is right for your home today.
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There's a viral video of water spraying from a high-rise rooftop making the rounds, and it could be significantly cooling the area beneath it.
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The textile and fashion industries are bad for the environment, but we might be able to reduce that negative impact by switching to banana cloth.
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Sunrise-simulating alarm clocks are having a bit of a moment right now, but are the claims made about them true? Are they an early morning miracle?
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While in the early days of space exploration it was quite common to see fins on rockets, today these structural components have become increasingly rare.
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Thanks to the fact that water doesn't stay in a cup in space, drinking on the International Space Station is no easy feat, so how do they do it?
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Part of the draw to post-apocalyptic shows and movies is wondering if it could ever happen in real life, especially if it's a zombie apocalypse.
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When planes fly through the atmosphere, they rely on air to keep themselves aloft, rockets on the other hand are better off without the air.
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Renewable energy installations have a serious vegetation problem. Discover the unusual, ancient solution that is making some farmers extremely wealthy.
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SpaceX is working on something unusual in orbit, and it could open the door to a very different kind of space mission than most people expect.
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People living far up in the northern hemisphere, such as Iceland and Greenland will be able to see the 2026 total solar eclipse, while others aren't as lucky.
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The benefits of solar energy are fairly well known, but there can be other benefits as well, particularly if you live in a rural village in China.
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CERN's large hadron collider is responsible for discovering the Higgs boson particle in 2012, which confirmed a hypothesis from as early as 1964.
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Unlike NASA's approach of launching two separate spacecraft, China reportedly plans to send its observer and impactor together in a single launch.
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Nearly 50 years ago, NASA launched what would become its first interstellar spacecraft, and this year Voyager 1 is set to reach a huge milestone.
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A series of studies on offshore windfarms in Europe have shown surprising effects of these oceanic installations on a particular marine population.
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If you've ever assembled your own audio system or built your own PC, you know what satisfaction feels like, and science can explain your feelings.
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Using cutting-edge technology, this 3D sensor from Ouster offers human-like vision to robots, promising to dramatically alter the physical AI space.
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Using the power of geography, this massive battery being built into the side of a mountain in China could be a gamechanger for the clean energy industry.
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Solar panels are usually placed on roofs to keep them out of the way and maximize solar exposure, but new panels could be coming for your windows.
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