After years of service, the InSIGHT Mars lander is officially retired. And it’s not due to old age – we all know how durable NASA spacecraft are, and

Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew into space on Apollo 7, the first flight with crew in NASA’s Apollo Program, died early Tuesday morning in Houston. He was 90 years old.

Salmonella are food-borne pathogens that infect millions of people a year. To do so, these bacteria depend on a complex network of genes and gene products that

Omnipresent fireworks displays won't be the only lights in the sky over the next few nights: There will be natural spectacles, too.

The first meteor shower of the year ends its peak period Tuesday (Dec. 3) night. This meteor shower is called the Quadrantids, and it's known for short peaks and bright fireballs. Up to 80 meteors can be seen in the sky during the shower's peak period. You c…

NASA says the initial deployment has gone perfectly, and it just so happens SWOT has some cameras so you can watch a replay. The deployment took days, but luckily, you can watch it at a vastly accelerated rate.

The tempestuous world is the most volcanically active in the solar system.

Up to 110 meteors an hour could be seen in the sky over the UK this evening

The Hubble Space Telescope keeps on delivering, after 30+ years in service.

SpaceX’s first launch this year will put 114 small satellites into polar orbit for operators in 23 countries. The launch is scheduled for Tuesday at 9:56

Obesity and metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, are extremely common in the United States.

‘Danuri’ hopes to examine the Moon – and help country land on it

Following its stellar debut in 2022 when it released its first images, the James Webb Space Telescope has continued to release mesmerising glimpses into the universe. Here is a selection of the photographs.

Scientists have discovered that both brown and white fat is filled with thousands of previously unknown microproteins, and show that one of these microproteins, called Gm8773, can increase appetite in mice. These findings could lead to the development of a th…

The European Space Agency and NASA are working to bring a network of satellites together to enable GPS and high-speed internet for space travelers.

The ability to transmit and manipulate, with minimal loss, the smallest unit of light—the photon—plays a pivotal role in optical communications as well as designs for quantum computers that would use light rather than electric charges to store and carry infor…

When we return to the Moon, and then move outward to Mars and beyond, the people who visit these strange new places will write entries in their journals (or blogs) about what they saw - and how they were affected by what they saw.

The next total solar eclipse will be the last one to be visible from the contiguous U.S. until 2044.

Everyone was excited when rovers found oxygen-related minerals on Mars. But new experiments show oxygen wasn't needed.

In the far north of the planet, climate change is clearly noticeable. A new study now shows that in parallel there have been dramatic changes in pollinating insects. Researchers have discovered that the network of plants and their pollinators there has change…

SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket of 2023, carrying the Transporter-6 rideshare flight with multiple government and private microsatellites and nanos...

Scientists are increasingly seeking to discover more about quantum entanglement, which occurs when two or more systems are created or interact in such a manner