Stories by Alexandra Witze

Cuts include 18 percent at the National Institutes of Health and 30 percent at the Environmental Protection Agency

Research to aid new jobs in struggling industries is at risk 

November tremor sparked slow, deep movements in Earth’s crust that increase the chances of a similar severe quake within a year

Eyeing a potential lander in the 2030s, scientists are studying the icy moon's treacherous surface

Geologists unearth signs of major volcanic events stretching back 3 billion years

This mostly submerged world should be recognized alongside Africa, Australia and others, argue some researchers

International team seeks better picture of wind as it moves over rugged terrain

Early results from examinations of NASA's Scott and Mark Kelly reveal alterations to gene expression during spaceflight

Climate sceptic William Happer and ardent critic of academia David Gelernter have met with the president

NASA is now building the rover that it hopes will bring back signs of life on the Red Planet

Although still producing world-class science, a lack of funding could soon mothball the storied radio telescope

Analysis reveals gas clouds the spacecraft will encounter in thousands of years

Pinpointing a source for "fast radio bursts" brings scientists one step closer to solving a cosmic mystery

The new tool, which divides water masses into precise categories, could help in conservation planning

Thomas Zurbuchen on the agency’s Earth-science programs and the transition to a new president

NASA spacecraft finds that Ceres is full of water

Two studies illuminate how the northern ice sheet waxed and waned over millions of years

Drilling into Mexico’s Chicxulub basin also finds shattered rock where underground life could thrive

GOES-R will provide a “superhigh-definition” view of Earth’s weather

Opposition from native Hawaiians may relocate the next-generation Thirty Meter Telescope to Spain's Canary Islands

DSCOVR’s computer may be suffering from radiation-induced glitches, months after it became the primary sentinel for incoming solar storms

NASA¹s New Horizons mission plumbs complex interplay between the dwarf planet's surface and its sky

Juno probe goes into safe mode hours before second flyby of the giant planet

Craters from hundreds of recent meteorite impacts are bad omens for future lunar bases