Dark matter is the name given to the mysterious, invisible matter that permeates the entire universe, connecting stars, planets, galaxies, and everything

Those trying to see the meteor shower should look for the bright star Vega when it's high in the night sky.

NASA's Mars helicopter has completed its 50th flight on the Red Planet, according to the agency.

Washington, Apr 15 (IANS): Scientists have offered an explanation of how quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on moons circling Jupiter and Saturn. Many of the ice-encrusted moons orbiting the giant planets in the far reaches of our …

LIGO-India, a third LIGO detector, has been approved by the Indian Union cabinet to pinpoint gravitational waves in tandem with US counterparts.

I even visited an old acquaintance, 40 years after they came to my Canadian hometown.

Israeli Astronomical Association says bolide visible over country's center and north for several seconds; unclear if any pieces survived fiery descent

The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for over ten years, and now it's getting its first software update since 2016 which will help it in one key way.

In a breakthrough, Australian scientists found two fungi that can break down plastics in 140 days.It was the highest degradation rate reported worldwide,

Most pictures of Uranus in textbooks show it as a bright blue, featureless ball.NASA scientists say Uranus' rings have only been captured by two other camera...

A proposed switch of the New Horizons mission to NASA's Heliophysics division could stop planetary science observations in the Kuiper Belt.

Scientists have synthesized a previously unknown isotope of uranium, uranium-241, that may start to disappear after just 40 minutes.

The mycologists argues that their field’s nomenclature guidelines make it seem as though thousands of recently discovered types of fungi simply don’t exist.

Research can answer some of the world’s biggest questions -- how to treat cancer, solve poverty, deal with climate change --but others explore more off-the-wall topics.

The Lyrids meteor shower starts Saturday night and is expected to peak between midnight and dawn on April 23, according to NASA.Full story: https://abc7chica...

Astronomers have long debated the source of ULXs, chalking their brightness up to optical illusions. A new study confirms that they're all that they appear.

A new technique for making super-thin, lightweight space telescope mirrors could dramatically improve our view of space.

Christiaan Huygens (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor

Meteorite impacts appear to come and go in a 200-million-year cycle over the course of Earth’s history.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have figured out how sandgrouse feathers can hold so much water.

By measuring radioactive elements in rocks from Earth and other parts of the solar system, scientists can develop a timeline of our planet's early years.

Norwood was an aerospace pioneer who invented the scanner that has been used to map and study the earth from space for more than 50 years. One of a small group of women in a male-dominated industry, she stood out for her acumen.

Is the newly discovered exoplanet habitable?

Humans and other organisms with backbones come equipped with an evolutionary marvel: eyes that function like cameras to provide a finely tuned visual system. Due to its complexity, Charles Darwin described the eye as one of the greatest potential cha