An icy moon broke up after getting too close to Saturn and chunks from its fragments form planet's rings, concludes study.

A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is getting closer to its target.

A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into a tiny asteroid is getting closer to its target. The DART mission is drawing closer to the moon of a near-Earth asteroid and is preparing to collide with the asteroid on September 26.

The latest Tweet by NASA states, 'Call for proposals: NASA is looking for companies interested in developing and demonstrating astronaut Moon landers for future #Artemis missions beyond Artemis III. ...'

Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa are among the oldest on Earth, with unique traits that come with age.

Plans to launch NASA's mega Moon rocket have slipped to late September at the earliest. So why are liquid hydrogen rockets so finicky, and how do they stack up with other technologies?

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA will provide live coverage of key events as a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts launch and dock to the International Space Station on...

If you ask people on Twitter to name a probe to Uranus, they're going to deliver.

Fire ants will change shape of the raft to reduce drag and adapt to fluid flows.

Our universe (and beyond) is incredible.

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Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of Sept. 12 that included examining adaptation of hand movements in space, studying properties of foams and emulsions, and analyzing how fuel temperature a…

NASA will provide live coverage of key events as a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts launch and dock to the International Space Station on Wednesday, Sept. 21.

The human gut microbiome is composed of thousands of different bacteria and archaea that vary widely between populations and individuals. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen have now discovered gut microbes that share a p

The chief engineer for the Space Launch System gives an update on the Artemis mission and the challenges of returning to the moon.  Plus, AI in improving mammograms.

As the saying goes, sort of: one being's 150 million year old pile of puked-out amphibian bones is another's scientific treasure.

Residents of Scotland and Northern Ireland were shocked to see what seemed to be a giant meteor streaking through the sky that was “so low you could hear it”, but what was the space object, where did it crash, and was it truly a ‘meteor’?

Residents of Scotland and Northern Ireland were shocked to see what seemed to be a giant meteor streaking through the sky that was “so low you could hear it”, but what was the space object, where did it crash, and was it truly a ‘meteor’?

Many state-of-the-art technologies work at incredibly low temperatures. Superconducting microprocessors and quantum computers promise to revolutionize computation, but scientists need to keep them just above absolute zero (-459.67° Fahrenheit) to protect thei…

The samples of organic matter have now be secured for a future mission to retrieve them and bring it back to Earth.

Researchers from the University of Bayreuth have examined two standard dispersion paints and found that they contain numerous solid particles that are barely a few micro- or nanometers in size. Dispersion paints are often used in homes to paint walls and ceil…