The world’s best preserved dinosaur fossil went on display in Canada six years after it was accidentally found by a shovel operator. Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum...
South Africa’s Rising Star cave has yielded additional fossil evidence of the newest human relative, Homo naledi. The early hominin species was first identified in a...
To the naked eye, space can sometimes seem like a lonely place. But as rendered by the Hubble Space Telescope, the cosmos appears crowded. A new...
SpaceX’s launch of a spy satellite aboard a Falcon 9 was postponed less than a minute before liftoff Sunday in Florida when the launch company detected...
NASA’s Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite snapped a stunning photo of the Bering Strait during a recent trip across the narrow strip of water separating Alaska and Siberia....
Cassini is back in contact with Earth, having executed its first dive through a 1,500-mile-wide gap separating Saturn and its rings. The space probe emerged from...
Archaeologists made a significant find at an ancient Roman temple site in north central Israel recently — a mother-of-pearl tablet scientists believe was part of a...
Controllers and scientists must wait until Thursday to hear from Cassini. The probe was due early on Wednesday to make the first of 22 dives in...
Global warming is accelerating toxic algae growth, new research shows. Researchers at Stony Brook University, in New York, analyzed the effects of rising ocean temperatures on...
New data from the Chandra X-ray observatory has revealed the heart beat-like pulses of a faraway supermassive blackhole. Black holes are mostly thought of as consumers...
A sizable asteroid will pass by Earth on Wednesday, according to astronomers. The asteroid, known as 2014 JO25, will come within 1.1 million miles of Earth,...