For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar ...

Todd Golden’s Gators began summer workouts with several new faces, key veterans and one goal in mind: The ability of transfer ...

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.

Supporters of the bill say it would allow terminally ill patients from England and Wales to end their lives "on their own ...

Scientists are revolutionizing the search for extraterrestrial life by challenging our somewhat Earth-centric assumptions ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an exciting discovery about the early universe. They ...

Solar sails represent one of the most elegant concepts in space exploration: using sunlight itself to propel spacecraft ...

The fundamental problem is that spacecraft must carry both fuel and oxidizer since there’s no air in space to support combustion. This creates a vicious circle: The more fuel you carry to go faster, ...

The monster black hole lurking at the center of galaxy M87 is an absolute beast. It is one of the largest in our vicinity and ...

Getting to Mars takes a really long time, about nine months using today's rocket technology. This is because regular rocket ...

Scientists have created a computer simulation that mimics what the Square Kilometer Array Low-frequency (SKA-Low) telescope ...