Stories by Adam Kovac

The planet LHS 1140 b lies in its star’s habitable zone, which already made it a prime candidate as a possible host for life

Case numbers of this parasite-caused illness have exploded in the last week. An expert explains how to try and stay safe

Beta Pictoris d is more than twice the size of Jupiter, but it is a baby compared to its humongous neighbors

Solar eclipses are a rare and brief opportunity for scientists to gather data on everything from the physics of the sun to air pressure in the upper atmosphere

Hundreds of thousands of scientists, including Nobel laureates, warn that changes to the way federal grants are approved would greatly damage American science

This climate system is tied to more powerful typhoons, as well as famine and wildfires

Cyclosporiasis case numbers have skyrocketed from several dozen nationwide in June to now more than 1,000 in the state of Michigan alone

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is an independent group that offers guidance on what health screenings and medications health insurance should cover

For almost 60 years, a global ban on nuclear weapons in space has held up. But the growing number of satellites and increasing geopolitical tension has scientists worried the moratorium could fail

Steel support columns in the Midtown building, which is being converted from offices into apartments, may have been overloaded, experts say

Probing the dawn of the cosmos for clues to how the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed is no easy feat

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence community, as well as to publish its findings in peer-reviewed journals

Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned crewed outpost on the surface

The speedy machine displaces the U.S.’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s El Capitan at the top of the TOP500 rankings of the world’s fastest supercomputers

Poor preparation and a failure to properly apply the coating may be just a few of the reasons why the Reflecting Pool’s new paint job appears to be peeling off

These ruins, located just five kilometers from Stonehenge, likely laid the groundwork for religious rites celebrating the longest and shortest days of the year

This partnership marks the latest foray into space exploration for Relativity Space, which aims to build cheap, reusable rockets

Angine de Poitrine don't abide by the usual rules of Western music, using their own custom-built guitar to strike notes that shouldn't exist

Bumblebees appear to be capable of coming up with creative solutions to new problems to get a sugary reward—and their strategies include cheating

More than 5,300 years after Ötzi’s death, researchers identified yeasts in his gut microbiome that continue to be active—and they used it to make bread

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago

Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust