But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling toward Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

This week, the Curiosity rover found large carbon deposits on Mars, suggesting an ancient carbon cycle. Researchers exploring ...

Today's rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the ...

When Grandma and Grandpa are in charge, the children are likely staring at a screen—a long-standing parental complaint now ...

Nearly 17% of the world's croplands are contaminated with "heavy metals," according to a new study in Science. These ...

In the subarctic and arctic reaches of the Northwest Territories (NWT), the climate is warming faster than most other places ...

In a study co-authored by a Texas A&M University scientist, researchers have revealed new insights into the geological ...

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

Secondary school boys get lower grades than girls and this is partly due to the fact that their friends are more likely to ...

An international research collaboration led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists that examined microscopic blobs of ...