The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life forms make to our climate system, and how we can work with them to address ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to ...

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...