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Five research aircraft will support a Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) mission out of Ellington Field in Houston. Flights are expected from Wednesday, June 3 to Saturday, June 13. During the mission, select maneuvers will be conducted at low altitudes over the...

More young people are turning to AI chatbots for mental health advice.Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents and young adults reported using ChatGPT, Meta AI, Character.AI or other chatbots for mental health help when they were feeling stressed, angry or...

NASA will host a public event featuring three crew members from the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, June 1. The event, which takes place during the crew’s standard postflight visit, will be held in the...

Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key element for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the primary mirror. This 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) mirror will collect and focus light...

The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years. The galaxy Messier 88 (M88), also known as NGC 4501, is located about 63 million light-years away in the constellation Coma...

On May 28, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced plans for a new...

Click here for our video on what happens when scientists release homing pigeons with disabled magnetic immune cells.Homing pigeons don’t rely on gut instinct to return to the roost. But a nearby organ — the liver — might point...

MIT and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced plans to establish the Quantum Systems Laboratory (QSL) at MIT, which...

Every year, about 85,000 Americans are diagnosed with bladder cancer. While treatment is often successful, bladder cancer...

Pesky mosquitoes on the hunt for a blood meal may find the smell of a common repellent alluring rather than repulsive. Yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) exposed to the insect repellent DEET can learn to associate the off-putting chemical with food, researchers...