Long-sought evidence of alien life could lurk in Earth's oceans, or in 'weird' objects orbiting near our planet, Harvard ...

Human activities now account for two-thirds of all methane venting to the atmosphere, and our efforts to staunch the flow are ...

Sept. 22, day and night will be nearly equal in length as Earth spins side-on to the sun and autumn officially begins in the ...

SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronaut Jared Isaacman briefly "touched the void" as he embarked on the first-ever private spacewalk ...

To stop forgetting so many things in the first place, Miller advised against multitasking. "When you think you're ...

Unlike the other planets in the solar system, Mars is distinctly triaxial, meaning it is an ellipsoid with different sizes ...

The first phase of China's moon base will be completed around 2035 near the lunar south pole, and an extended model will be ...

"Human evolution has occurred both due to, and in spite of, the placenta. Every pregnancy, unthinkingly, must navigate a ...

But we did find one effect of removing color: food neophobia was no longer correlated with food recognition ability. It was ...

The world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, is being hit with unusually heavy rain. Scientists are unclear why, but it may be ...

The earliest written records of soap-like substances date to around 2500 B.C. in Mesopotamia. Clay tablets indicate that the ...

China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.