"We could determine the mass of the Himalayas using atoms," Jason Hyon, chief technologist for Earth Science at NASA's Jet ...

NASA and partners are building the first quantum gravity sensor for space, a breakthrough instrument that uses ultra-cold ...

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

Some NASA Earth science missions have been told to prepare termination plans given the potential for major budget cuts in the ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

This mission will pave the way for groundbreaking observations of everything from petroleum reserves to global supplies of ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered siderite, a carbonate mineral, in Mars’ Gale Crater, offering strong evidence that the ...

Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...