Space
Ann-Marie Madigan has been named a 2018 Packard Fellow, an award that comes with a no-strings-attached grant of $875,000.
Scientists have successfully collected dust raining down from Saturn's rings onto the planet's upper atmosphere.
ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ researchers have proposed a new satellite that would orbit the moon to seek out signals from the cosmic "dark ages."
Scientists on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission have stitched together a selfie of the spacecraft from 21 different ultraviolet images.
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission captured a "first light" image of the sun rising over the Western Hemisphere.
ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ researchers and engineers have played a major role in designing the Parker Solar Probe, one of the "riskiest" NASA missions in decades.
Research pioneered at JILA is now up and running on a NASA experiment to explore exotic states of matter on the International Space Station.
Researchers throw cold water on a staple question of science fiction: Can humans transform Mars into a more Earth-like planet?
Researchers at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ will soon set their sights on the heliosphere, a massive bubble in space that surrounds our solar system and shields it from incoming radiation.
Researchers at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ have discovered a new type of Martian aurora caused by protons plunging into the Red Planet's atmosphere.