Amina Khan

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have developed a variety of origami-inspired artificial muscles that can lift up to a thousand times their own weight —...

On its deepest dive through the spray that shoots up from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft picked up signs of molecular hydrogen and carbon dioxide — two ingredients...

A team of astronomers says they've caught wind of an atmosphere around a super-Earth known as GJ 1132b, just 39 light-years away. The findings, described in the Astronomical Journal, mark...

After circling the Red Planet for more than a full Martian year, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has discovered the culprit behind much of Mars' missing air: a young, rambunctious sun. The...

The dinosaur family tree may need to be radically rewritten — and even uprooted and replanted elsewhere, a new analysis of about 75 different species shows. The findings, published in...