NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to ...

A Pew Research poll shows partisan split over U.S. scientific leadership, with Democrats far more concerned about losing ...

The Senate voted to provide billions more to NASA, NOAA and the National Science Foundation than the president had asked for.

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The energy state of an atom is denoted by its principal quantum number, designated n, which defines the probability of ...

Democrats continue to be more likely than Republicans to say science has had a mostly positive effect on society.

Patient advocacy groups also campaigned to restore funding. United for Cures, a network of groups, organised a vast ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, but sharply diverge on how the U.S ...

Basic scientific research is a key contributor to economic productivity. Is science running out of steam? A growing body of research suggests that disruptive breakthroughs—the kind that fundamentally ...

SOCORRO, NM - 1999: These 27 moveable antennas, known as the Very Large Array, take in radio signals, some extremely faint, from throughout the cosmos, 1999 near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is a ...