Radio telescopes are losing important data as the government and companies look to increase Earth-to-space communications.

Hot, nutrient water might have lasted for over 5 million years after the impact.

In June 1969, a fire on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River—the last in a series of big blazes spanning decades—spurred the government to make sweeping environmental changes that altered the course of the coun...

Trillions of dollars in spending, higher interest rates, hardly any jobs

Gene-editing techniques could soon allow researchers to replace entire genes and engineer complex cellular circuits — if the systems can be delivered safely into cells.

A man found dead in a church may have unlocked the key to one of America’s most famous unsolved crimes.

Sinead’s subheadline: “Starbase, we have a problem”; the megabear case on SpaceX makes a lot of sense; as Nilay Patel ways: it’s broadband telecom with a splashy marketing department...

Michael Gaffey, 80, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Space Studies Emeritus, died on Sunday, Sept. 20.

Not “journalism” but rather “journamalism”: words that have absolutely no relationship at all to the project of informing your readers about the state of the world, but are rather a cynical game...

Trump gets ready to stiff more contractors

Key aspects of the PRIMA mission, which will open a new window on the cold, dusty universe in far‑infrared light, were developed at Caltech and JPL.

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