But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling toward Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

This week, the Curiosity rover found large carbon deposits on Mars, suggesting an ancient carbon cycle. Researchers exploring ...

Today's rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the ...

When Grandma and Grandpa are in charge, the children are likely staring at a screen—a long-standing parental complaint now ...

In the subarctic and arctic reaches of the Northwest Territories (NWT), the climate is warming faster than most other places ...

Nearly 17% of the world's croplands are contaminated with "heavy metals," according to a new study in Science. These ...

In a study co-authored by a Texas A&M University scientist, researchers have revealed new insights into the geological ...

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

Secondary school boys get lower grades than girls and this is partly due to the fact that their friends are more likely to ...

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...