Two teams of intrepid scientists brave remote Australian terrain to find clues to the essential mystery: How did life come to be on Earth? Join the astrobiol...

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Scientists have found that Earth's deep mantle may hold pieces of the ancient planet Theia, offering new insights into the Moon's origin and Earth's formative years. An interdisciplinary international research team has recently discovered that a massive anoma…

Scrubbed from the flight because of exposure to measles, Mr. Mattingly helped devise a plan to return the astronauts safely after an explosion aboard the spacecraft.

Simulations produced by a Brown-led research team offer evidence that Venus once had plate tectonics — a finding that opens the door for the possibility of early life on the planet and insights into its history. Venus, a scorching wasteland of a planet accord…

WTOP Space Contributor Greg Redfern was among those at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia over the weekend who saw a rare space phenomenon in the sky.

Astronomers say they've found the first extrasolar planet in a polar circumbinary disk.

KARE 11 meteorologist Jamie Kagol shares some astronomy fun facts about the moon.kare11.com/weathermindsWelcome to the official YouTube channel of KARE 11 Ne...

The mystery of Ezekiel's Wheel—the extinct sea creature, not the Biblical vision—may have taken its final turn, thanks to Yale paleontologists. In so doing, the researchers have also finally put a scientific name to the favorite fossil of a beloved amateur fo…

Chandrayaan4 mission will target this important objective on the Moon Chandrayaan4 mission is in the development stage and ISRO and JAXA have big plans for the lunar project. Check out the lunar water objective of ISRO. ISRO and JAXA have collaborated to cond…

Hundreds of rocks from Mars have been crashing into Earth and scientists are busy studying them to unravel a major mystery.

During its last flyby of Ganymede, the Juno probe reported finding traces of mineral salts and organic molecules on its surface.

Ekgmowechashala is a poorly documented but very distinctive species of ancient primate that lived in western North America during the Early Oligocene epoch, some 30 million years ago.

Since the late 1980s, seismic stations around the world have been taking the planet’s pulse. The low, steady thrum of ocean waves – once considered background noise by seismologists – has been intensifying since the late 20th century, according to a study led…

Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own.

The vehicle could make its first flight to space as soon as next spring.

Crabs are unique and continuously evolving animals, often moving their lifestyles out of marine environments for other environments to do so. The most popular food species can be fully marine (snow crab) or estuarine (Maryland blue crab, Dungeness crab). Some…

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A study published Nov. 6 in The Planetary Science Journal examines how NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has conducted a first-time detection of carbon dioxide in a centaur, this one designated 39P/Oterma. A centaur is a small planetary body that orbit…

A study published today in The Planetary Science Journal examines how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has conducted a first-time detection of carbon dioxide in a Centaur, this one designated 39P/Oterma. A Centaur is a small planetary body that orbits…

A fireball that appeared in the skies off the coast of Long Island has been confirmed to have been a meteor that was seen in several states, including New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.  …

A new mathematical model predicts that mammalian sperm cells have two distinct swimming modes. This prediction opens new questions about potential connections between sperm cells' motor activity and their transitions to hyperactivation phases that may play an…

A crew access arm was lifted into place at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral on Monday, as SpaceX races to ready the pad for its first Crew Dragon launch with astronauts as soon as January.

Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with paleontologists from Spain and Poland, have used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of pleurocystitid, a marine organism that existed …

According to NASA's schedule, the Psyche asteroid retrieval could occur in late 2029 or early 2030, following the mission's completion.