The bruising artillery battle in Ukraine has left a scar that is visible from space
NASA-backed researchers say that millions of acres of farmland have been abandoned due to the conflict.
Space
This week in science: Elusive antimatter, a brightening night sky and Fat Bear Week
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Aaron Scott of Short Wave about elusive antimatter, a brightening night sky and a competition among super-sized grizzly bears: Fat Bear Week.
Black holes can teach us how to live our best lives
Black holes may seem like interstellar enigmas, but they hold some key lessons on how to move through the universe.
This week's harvest moon will be the last supermoon of the year
A supermoon occurs when the moon is closest to Earth along its elliptical orbit, which means it can appear larger and brighter to viewers. The last one of the year will be visible Thursday and Friday.
After 7 years, NASA's Osiris-REx returns to earth... with souvenirs!
NASA's Osiris-REx mission brought back asteroid samples untainted by Earth's atmosphere.
A canister of asteroid samples for NASA to study lands safely in Utah
A space capsule with dirt and rocks collected from an asteroid has returned safely to Earth. Scientists eagerly anticipate what the samples could tell them about Earth's origins and the galaxy.
NASA asteroid sample lands safely in Utah before being whisked away by helicopter
NASA's Osiris-REx mission has successfully returned a pristine sample of asteroid back to Earth. This cupful-or-so of space rock could shed light on the solar system's origins.
She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity
This theoretical physicist and mathematician drops a new video several times a month, dispensing her dry wit and pithy wisdom to a loyal fan base of nerds across the internet.
NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash
NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.
A source of carbon — a building block of life — is found on Jupiter's moon Europa
"The discovery signals a potentially habitable environment in the ocean of Europa," according to the Webb Space Telescope's website.