NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — ...

World Asteroid Day is observed every year on June 30 to raise awareness about asteroids and the potential hazards they pose ...

NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after ...

A physicist solves an old thermodynamic puzzle and demonstrates directly from the second law that entropy disappears at ...

Samples from a new site place the rocks at approximately 4.16 billion years old, in the earliest period of Earth's history.

Live updates from Monday morning's SpaceX Starlink 10-23 mission and ULA-Amazon Project Kuiper 2 mission from Cape Canaveral ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

Researchers are tracking how much sediment has been excavated since the river cut its new path. They hope to share the information with other communities with aging, at-risk dams.

A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted enough greenhouse gases that the ...

His research unraveled mysteries about the solar system and the demise of the dinosaurs. In retirement, he turned his ...

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon launch from Florida, propelling the company closer to providing internet ...