The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...

NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter’s moon Io has provided incredible data. A recent flyby revealed the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on Io, the most volcanic world in our solar system.

Great River Energy has partnered with Prisma Photonics to roll out monitoring technology on Minnesota's grid using existing ...

The MIT Alumni/Student Decarbonization Team will host a forum on a plan that members say could save the university hundreds ...

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

Gradient's advanced window unit can heat and cool 500 square feet of your home, and it doesn't require any electrical work.

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

As the wet season approaches, two outback stations that usually face failing fridges and whopping power bills have installed ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...