CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on ...

Scientists found all five nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA and RNA, in Asteroid Ryugu samples returned by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission.

Humans were not designed for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as ...

The space-faring mice spent about 28 days in those conditions before returning to Earth in April. Mortreux and her colleagues then analyzed the weight, strength and movement of the 23 surviving ...

Every once in a while, a science-fiction movie comes along that reminds you why the genre can be so much fun. Not just ...

It’s been a minute since we’ve had a big screen space epic that’s as fun as it is awe inspiring. The last memorable one might have been “The Martian, “ so perhaps it shouldn’t be all that surprising ...

New funding from the Texas Space Commission and U.S. Space Force will expand Rice University's space research programs.

Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening how long an average day lasts. And the current rate of increase to a single average day—1.33 additional milliseconds per century—is ...

UK-based Blue Skies Space's first satellite begins calibration with a bright star 104 light-years away.

It’s been a minute since we’ve had a big screen space epic that’s as fun as it is awe inspiring. The last memorable one might have been The Martian, so perhaps it shouldn’t be all that surprising that ...

Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that stick to one another and also adhere to a nearby surface. They are ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a star located about 83 light years away. The newfound alien world is slightly ...