Tree rings hold clues about ancient solar storms. New research shows tree growth and carbon storage can shift those signals across years.

Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about ancient solar storms—rare bursts of high-energy particles from the ...

The UTA sapling was one of thousands of seeds on 2022 Artemis I mission, launched to test aircraft to fly crews back to the moon.

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What NASA accomplished in the early 1970s is a little-known but truly impressive feat. Instead of putting rockets or robots in space, they put seeds there. Seeds of different trees accompanied ...

When Apollo 14 returned to Earth in 1971, it brought with it an unexpected legacy: hundreds of tree seeds that had orbited the Moon. These seeds, later called “Moon Trees,” were part of a small ...