Scientists have long wondered why life exclusively uses left-handed amino acids, and a groundbreaking NASA study has just ...

After its retirement in 1999, the SR-71 Blackbird—a high-speed reconnaissance aircraft—was considered for reactivation ...

Facing erasure due to climate change, the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu is digitally backing up everything from its houses ...

The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating samples brought back to Earth ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology for the in-person and virtual talk "A Precursor Survey of the Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Fields" by Sean K. Terry, Postdoctoral ...

I am delighted to announce that Professor Supriya Chakrabarti has been selected as UMass Lowell’s 2024-2027 Distinguished University Professor, the university’s most prestigious academic honor for a ...

SpaceX's Starship megarocket just added another moon mission to its docket. Colorado company Lunar Outpost announced today ...

The XB-70 Valkyrie was an experimental U.S. nuclear bomber developed in the 1950s and 1960s as a potential replacement for the B-52. Designed to fly at Mach 3 speeds and altitudes of 70,000 feet, it ...

After 12 years exploring the red planet, NASA's Curiosity rover is still going strong. The robot has spent the past year ...

India plans to count toxic farm fires by monitoring the burnt area they leave rather than the current method of using orbiting satellites to measure live fires.

India's government plans to clamp down on polluting farm fires by measuring the areas burnt instead of live blazes, after reports that farmers were burning paddy waste or stubble at times when ...

Donald Trump recently asked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head what he called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, an unofficial initiative for reducing the size of the federal ...