Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers on Earth and send back unique data.

Scientists turn to ancient DNA to understand the history of Easter Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean also known as ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

This week, uncover why Neanderthals may have disappeared, see an eel escape a predator’s stomach, explore an ancient ...

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission may wind down this weekend. Here are all the ways its crew of four citizen astronauts has ...

Earth orbit that included the world’s first commercial spacewalk as it aims to splash down off Florida’s coast.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who served on Boeing’s Starliner crewed test flight, reflects on the ...

As the quest to find the origins of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone heats up, researchers rule out one Scottish site that appeared ...

A recent breakthrough has paved the way for timekeeping even more precise than the measurements performed by atomic clocks.

After being swallowed alive, Japanese eels were able to escape from a predator fish’s stomach and swim to freedom through the fish’s gills, new research shows.

Astronomers observed a close pair of black holes dancing around one another using the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra ...

Well-preserved fossils reveal that even the most colossal of pterosaurs were capable of flight, and various species had ...