An intense solar eruption recently triggered a rare "severe geomagnetic storm" alert for Earth, with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory capturing the CME racing toward us at 1,700 km/s. These Earth-directed blasts from the Sun can wreak havoc on satellites, G…

The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: the quasi-moon Kamo’oalewa.

"When nearby supernovas occur in the future, the radiation could have a pretty dramatic effect on human society."

A fisherman at sea off the coast of Canada recorded something that few humans have ever seen.

At first glance, dinosaur fossils and modern cancer research may seem worlds apart.

Scientists discovered a sugar from sea cucumbers that may help slow cancer growth without the side effects of current treatments.

When the Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, they discovered drifts of tiny brilliant orange glass beads glittering across the surface. Each one less than 1 mm across and formed about 3.6 billion years ago. These microscopic treasures, each smaller than a p…

"This was the first star we've seen that is right in the middle of its 'teenage' phase."

(COMET) contract management at NASA Kennedy sent an email out saying that they're going to RIF

Climate models that give a low warming from increases in greenhouse gases do not match satellite measurements. Future warming will likely be worse than thought unless society acts, according to a new study published in Science.

By absorbing ultraviolet sunlight, haze particles also gain enough energy to leak out into space.

The time-lapse footage was captured by NASA astronaut Jonny Kim.

For nine days, Earth sent out unexplained seismic pulses. Now, scientists have cracked the mystery behind these strange signals.

Astronomers' attempts to study the earliest universe could be threatened by SpaceX Starlink satellites leaking radio emissions.

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil found reveals intact wing veins and rewrites the distribution and evolution of ancient platypleurids.

What scientists believed were Ice-Age puppies found in Siberian permafrost have turned out to be something completely unexpected.

A team of researchers at Rice have discovered a surprisingly simple method for vastly improving the stability of electrochemical devices that convert carbon dioxide into useful fuels and chemicals, and it involves nothing more than sending the CO 2 through an…

Space Launch Complex 37 has been around since the Apollo era.

Ancient cave art may have depicted an extinct creature 250 million years before paleontologists even knew it existed.

A chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary's first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space Station. NASA said Thursday that it wants to monitor the cabin pressure on the Russian side o…

One new genus. 12 new species. Countless leaping.

Scientists just uncovered a shocking new tyrannosaur species that could change everything we know about T. rex

HLS program manager Lisa Watson-Morgan is retiring at the end of the month - via an email to the HLS work force.

Answer me, shark.

NASA's Voyager 1 uncovered a shocking fiery barrier at the edge of our Solar System.