Cassini imaging scientists used views like this one to help them identify the source locations for individual jets spurting ice particles, water vapor and trace organic compounds from the surface of Saturns moon Enceladus. photo courtesy: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute PASADENA,…

By Marcia Wood In a wood near you, powerful microbes quicken the decay of fallen tree branches. These adroit decomposers perform that essential role by producing specialized enzymes. In the United States and abroad, biofuels researchers prize these enzymes because…

Knud-niks, Neewalkers, O-dats, Keepers and holographic rooms. Aliens with two heads, security drones and food that comes in pills. These are some of the characters and objects that young readers will find in The Softwire series of novels by PJ…

Size of Kuiper Belt Objects: This illustration of the largest known Kuiper Belt Objects shows Xena slightly larger than Pluto. Photo courtesy: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) For the first time, NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has seen distinctly the…

The U.S. Gulf of Mexico contains very thick and concentrated gas-hydrate-bearing reservoir rocks which have the potential to produce gas using current technology. Recent drilling by a government and industry consortium confirm that the Gulf of Mexico is the first…

EDWARDS, Calif. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew landed at 8:39 a.m. PDT Sunday, May 24 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis astronauts conducted five successful spacewalks during…

Work could help heal sports injuries, arthritis CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT engineers and colleagues have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints. The scaffold could offer a potential new…

By Jo Gellerman, Arizona Health Sciences Center A three-member surgeon team successfully completed the first intestine transplant in the state of Arizona. Photo courtesy of the Arizona Health Sciences Center The patient who received the first intestine transplant using a…

MIT and Cambridge University scientists developed this tissue scaffold that could help repair knees and other joints. The top section, indicated by the green arrow, stimulates bone growth, while the lower half, marked by the orange arrow, stimulates cartilage growth.…

Left: Angelos Vourlidas, SECCHI Project Scientist, talks about coronal mass ejections- explosions of the suns atmosphere that propagate in space in the form of a cloud, and how the STEREO satellites are helping scientists reconstruct a three-dimensional view of their…

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASAs Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. The new first light images show the missions target patch of sky, a vast starry…

Measuring Snowfall with Solar Panels. Using the device pictured right, government scientists are measuring snowfall in remote areas with a bucket, a small windmill, and the sun -- all the while saving money, energy, and ultimately helping to save lives.…