Stories by Alexandra Witze

Lunar researchers want to take advantage of Trump administration’s political interest

Funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health would hold steady after Congress agrees to lift spending caps, but details are fuzzy

Experiment shows how spacecraft could use stellar signals to navigate in deep space without human instruction

Earth scientists recommend smaller, cheaper missions to maximize science returns over the next decade

More than 2 million newly digitized images extend the history of the bottom of the ice sheet

U.S. astronauts last visited the lunar surface in the 1970s

Lawsuit alleges the institution mishandled complaints about cognitive scientist Florian Jaeger

The trick lies in capturing the weak gravitational shifts in the ground

Astronomers expand ideas of how chemistry and geology could affect chances for life on other worlds

National Science Foundation will look for partners to provide extra financial support for Puerto Rico facility

Complex chemistry in the dwarf planet’s upper atmosphere may explain one of its biggest mysteries

Scientists scramble to avert disruption to dataset that has tracked polar ice since the late 1970s

Juno probe discovers surprising activity in the giant planet’s interior

Geologists track hundreds of quakes caused by people and the projects that set them off

Ancient crustaceans in dino dung from Utah illuminate herbivores’ broad diet

Latest big tremor could be linked to major earthquake earlier this month

James Bridenstine, a member of Congress, has long pushed for the U.S. to return to the moon

From ground, sky and space, researchers are ready to test latest technologies on the Great American Eclipse

Scientists will look into the heart of Surtsey, an island created 50 years ago by a volcanic eruption

Lax standards for lunar, Martian and asteroidal soil simulants are stymying planetary science

Geophysicists are ramping up their efforts to monitor major undersea faults for movement with sea-floor sensors

Vice Pres. Mike Pence will helm the group overseeing U.S. civilian and military space activities

Space agency takes a hard look at plans for its next big space observatory

Plumes of ammonia and quirky magnetic fields are among the surprises from the spacecraft’s first science results