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.

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 ...

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

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

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

Parasitoid wasps sometimes lay eggs in unsuitable host insects, a behavior that has traditionally been considered accidental.

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Several months later, the U.S. sent Explorer I into space. With two small objects ...

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