A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

James Dyke is an associate professor of earth system science and assistant director of the Global Systems Institute at the ...

This rare vantage blends human celebration with the silence of space, highlighting the ISS's unique perspective on global ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

Often misunderstood as "hovering," satellites are actually in constant free-fall, perpetually missing Earth's surface as the ...

Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...