Author: Emily Conover

Adding a magnet could simplify the process of producing oxygen in space, making a crewed mission to Mars more feasible.

In The Martians, journalist David Baron recounts scientific and public debate over purported intelligent life on the Red Planet.

Sun-powered fliers could use photophoretic forces to hover in the mesosphere, gathering data from a region off limits to planes and balloons.

Quantum computers in space could be useful for communications networks or for testing fundamental physics.

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass

The first structures ever 3-D printed inside living cells point to applications for biology research.