Most of the rocks that fall from the heavens are tiny, ending up as meteors or fireballs, burning brightly in the sky in a more or less continuous fall. More serious objects are r ...

But sometimes, his inventions took on a more playful bent. Not for nothing was the classical Arabic term for mechanics and ...

Turns out space stinks, but how do we know what cosmic objects smell like and can we recreate it here on Earth?

Amazingly, this highly conventional system of signs appears to have been used for a period of almost 10,000 years before vanishing, only to be re-developed by the Sumerians many millennia later and ...

The incident that left two astronauts stranded has been placed in the same category as the Challenger and Columbia disasters.

A big temperature shift like this could be a sign of a forthcoming supernova in one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, but that’s not the only possible outcome.

A rtemis II is going back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), and the astronauts are out of quarantine, quashing our hopes of seeing the launch next week or the one after. Friday morning, we ...

There are things the NASA chief has "come across in the job that he can’t explain," but aliens are not among them.

N ASA’s Artemis II will take astronauts farther into space than ever, past the far side of the Moon, and back to Earth faster ...

Complex cells are thought to be the result of a union between two ancient microorganisms, but scientists have long been ...

Located in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Taklamakan Desert is one of the driest places on Earth ...

I n 2013, deep within a Canadian mine, geologists discovered a fracture that contained the oldest known water on Earth. Hidden nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, the ancient water had ...