A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor ...

A version of proposed updates to Iowa’s science education standards -- omitting the phrases “climate change” and “biological ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Proposed state science standards could remove the phrase ‘climate change’ and some mentions of ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...

A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable ...

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"According to standard solar models, when nuclear fusion ignited in the core of the Sun at the time of its arrival on what is ...

Giant planets orbiting close to their stars were thought to boot other planets out of their star system on the way in, but ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...