Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.

"Diamond rain" on the giant icy planets Neptune and Uranus could be more common than previously thought, say scientists.

Strangely behaving matter could one day explain some of the mysteries of space.

Organizers across the US are finding innovative grassroots strategies for helping people thrive. Many of these ventures emphasize working together as part of communities and collective systems.

Simulated Mars dust and titanium alloy combine to make a 3D printed material that could one day become tools or rocket parts on Mars.

Avoid while pregnant or trying to conceive: smoking, drinking, space travel.

New information about the surface properties of the moon's permanently shadowed region will help to identify suitable locations for future lunar missions.

Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere.

Rocks on Mars that date back nearly 4 billion years are composed of large grains of olivine, which tints Hawaiian beaches green back on Earth.

People wouldn’t last long without the countless other species we depend on for survival.