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Five new species of frogs were recently discovered in the rain forests of Madagascar, all of them so small they could easily fit on the tip of your finger.

Astronaut Scott Kelly made history in 2016 when he became the first American to spend 12 consecutive months in space after an epic 340-day stint on the International Space Station.

Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft snapped a stunning picture of the Moon moments before it crashed into the lunar surface Thursday.

NASA announced Thursday that it had awarded a contract to SpaceX, the space exploration company led by Musk, to help it with asteroid deflection via its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Black holes are cosmic prisons, where nothing escapes, not light or even data. But lots did come out of Wednesday's first image of the shadowy edge of a supermassive black hole. Here are four things we learned:

A hazardous "time bomb" of radioactive fallout from nuclear meltdowns and weapons testing is waiting to go off around the world.

First, your insides are strung out like hot mozzarella, before you're yanked into all-encompassing darkness that swallows you whole.

SpaceX successfully launched its new and improved Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Thursday, more than a year after sending up a "red Roadster" in its initial test flight. 

A group of lifeguards and surfers had to carry a baby great white shark on a surfboard in order to save it from being trapped in a rocky area of the South African coast.

Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft has failed in its audacious attempt to make a Moon landing.

The incredible first ever image of a black hole proves the power of science, according to former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino.

Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft is set to make its historic Moon landing Thursday.

Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have teamed up to decode a set of mysterious tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave.

An international network of radio telescopes has produced the first-ever close-up image of a black hole's shadow, which scientists revealed this morning (April 10).

Deep in the heart of alien worlds, crystals form under pressures up to 40 million times more intense than the atmospheric pressure on Earth, and as much as 10 times more intense than the pressure in our planet's core.

Katie Bouman reacted modestly to her sudden celebrity status this week, but the scientist whose graduate school work helped lead to the first real image of a black hole Wednesday, is getting her due.

Fossil bones and teeth belonging to at least three individuals found in a cave in the Philippines have revealed a new species of human that walked the earth nearly 50,000 years ago, researchers say.

A 32-year-old photographer was able to capture incredible images of a great white shark charging his shark cage off Neptune Islands in South Australia.

Emissions rising at their current rates will result in almost all of the glaciers in the Alps melting by the end of the century.

European scientists looking for some of the oldest ice on the planet have homed in on a particular spot in Antarctica , where they will drill more than 1.5 miles (2.7 kilometers) below the surface of the ice.