Launch of the Luna-25 craft to the moon on Friday will be conducted without assistance the European Space Agency.

Astronomers used JWST to study the farthest known star, Earendel, to get more information about it and its host galaxy.

The first lunar mission in a half-century, Artemis II will next year see four astronauts fly 600,000 miles around the moon before returning to Earth.

The dust floating around the International Space Station is worse than what's milling around in your house or apartment, researchers found.

A team of scientists led by Masaya Hagiwara of RIKEN national science institute in Japan has developed an ingenious device, using layers of hydrogels in a cube-like structure, that allows researchers to construct complex 3D organoids without using elaborate t…

A proof-of-concept study using bacteria shows cell therapy can detect tumours – and may one day be able to treat them.

Scientists are concerned that "extremely warm" ocean temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef are a sign of a "potentially catastrophic" coral bleaching event to come.

Observations by the cutting-edge space observatory offer up new details of Earendel—a 12.9-billion-year-old star.

One hundred million years ago, as iguanodons and triceratops fled from hungry tyrannosaurs, another biological drama played out on the ground where the giant re

Microscopic plastic particles have been found in the fats and lungs of two-thirds of the marine mammals in a graduate student's study of ocean microplastics. The presence of polymer particles and fibers in these animals suggests that microplastics can travel …

As butterflies flit among flowers, they don't all view blossoms the same way. In a phenomenon called sexually dimorphic vision, females of some butterfly species perceive ultraviolet color while the males see light and dark. University of California, Irvine b…

Extreme weather events have dominated the news this summer, with reports on extensive wildfires in Canada; dangerous flooding in India, Japan, and the Eastern U.S.; severe heat waves in Spain, China, the United States, and Mexico; and the hottest day ever rec…

A new genus and species of eutherian mammal has been described from a handful of tiny teeth found in the Prince Creek Formation in northern Alaska, the United States.

NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander gathered images of itself for this selfie from June 5 through July 12, 2008, with its Surface Stereo Imager.

A new study published in the journal Science finds that around 1.12 million years ago a massive cooling event in the North Atlantic and corresponding shifts in climate, vegetation and food resources disrupted early human occupation of Europe.

A new type of chemistry performed at very cold temperatures on very small particles enables quick, precise reactions.

A new kind of particle in wildfire smoke is warming the planet a lot more than we realized.

Both solar flares were X-class events, the most intense and energetic storms the Sun can emit.

Scientists in Alaska discover fossil of tiny ‘ice mouse’ that lived 73 million years ago

An international team of researchers has tested the accuracy of an automated microscope, combined with AI software

Cosmologist who explored the clustering of galaxies as a way of establishing the distribution of dark matter in the universe

A critical auxiliary target for NASA’s Artemis II mission is ready for flight following testing at United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Florida facility.