Group to examine potential extinction of microbes essential to planetary and human health.

While the early Mars climate remains an open question, a new study suggests its atmosphere may have been hospitable to life due to volcanic activity which emitted sulfur gases that contributed to a greenhouse warming effect.

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Michael Starkey has provided observational evidence from the SwRI-led Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission of pickup ions (PUIs) and associated wave activity in the near-Earth solar wind environment. 

A pioneering study led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with international partners has applied AI for the first time to count the Great Wildebeest Migration from satellite images. 

The University of Oxford is to lead a new £3 million project to develop novel cathode materials for future lithium-ion batteries.

A news conference this morning will focus on the analysis of a rock sampled by the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover last year, which is the subject of a forthcoming science paper.

For the first time, researchers report that Arctic algae can hustle along in -15 C – the lowest-temperature movement ever recorded in complex, living cells. 

This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster. 

Initially thought to contain the pesticide DDT, study reveals some barrels contained caustic alkaline waste.

A particularly strong monsoon has delivered above-normal levels of rainfall to parts of Pakistan since late June 2025. Extensive flooding has affected millions of people, destroyed infrastructure, inundated a large portion of the country’s agricultural land, and claimed hundreds of lives.