Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar ...

Hydrogen demand around the world is projected to grow significantly by 2050. Some of that supply could come from nature itself.

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

Musk’s xAI bought the long-dormant power plant in Southaven last year and plans to spend more than $20 billion in the area, some of it on a new data center in the city. It was the largest private ...

Engineers at UC Davis have built a remarkable device that creates power at night by tapping into something we rarely think about: the vast cold of outer space. Using a special type of Stirling engine, ...

As President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, reporters from across NPR's newsroom, are fact checking his speech and offer context.

Cuba's envoy to Ottawa says the U.S. is trying to overthrow his country's communist government — but Canada's foreign service says the regime's hold on Havana is "quite stable." ...

President Donald Trump has plenty of work to do to distract from a growing list of crises. His next carrot on a stick: aliens ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has advanced a key step toward a new special nuclear material license for fuel fabrication: publishing the Final Environmental Impact Statement for TRISO-X, ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — Read Ken Paxton's Republican primary candidate questionnaire for the U.S. Senate seat in Texas. Note: The USA TODAY Network only edited the response to comply with journalistic ...