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Last month, I interviewed Amber Straughn, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who studies the evolution of galaxies. She's part of the team working on what will essentially be the most powerful telescope ever built: the James Webb...

DETAILS:     Join ASU’s Hollywood Invades Tempe for a lecture on Narrative Matters – How Stories Reflect, Distort, and Create Our World with Minority Report producer Walter Parkes on November 17 at Old Main. Later that evening, catch a special screening...

There may have been Life on Mars, say two geo-scientists who have been studying hot springs in Chile and found silica deposits with structures influenced by living organisms, which are surprisingly similar to a location visited by NASA’s Spirit rover...

The Daily Galaxy: “This is an opportunity to explore a new type of world – not one of rock or ice, but of metal,” said Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Psyche’s principal investigator and planetary scientist at Arizona State University. “16 Psyche is the only known...

Often thought of as useless hunks of rock or ice floating around space, asteroids also have one giant, scary stigma attached to them: They could completely destroy our planet. But some asteroids are also rich sources of precious minerals, like iron,...