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How do you make an ambitious goal and a speedy timeline seem worth tackling among a busy slate of jostling existential crises?

To coincide with the arrival of spring and insects buzzing, flying and crawling everywhere, NASA has found a butterfly in the last place you'd think – space.

Just a week after the death of their 6-year-old African elephant, Nyah, the Indianapolis Zoo delivered another sad message: Its other youngest African elephant, 8-year-old Kalina, died Tuesday (March 26).

Middle school children on a field trip in Texas came across a western rat snake wrapped around a large red-tail hawk, which was likely hoping to make the serpent its next meal.

The wreck of a U.S. B-24 bomber that plunged into the sea off Bermuda in February 1945 has been discovered by a team of researchers from the University of Delaware.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) continues to monitor the whereabouts and wanderings of China's Yutu 2 rover on the moon's far side.

Observations of the most distant galaxy ever identified revealed traces of oxygen from at least one previous generation of stars, a sign that star formation got off to an early start.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A culture society in Serbia made public this month two letters that they say were written by late 19th- and early 20th-century inventor and electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla.

A bizarre photo of a bear surrounded by elk has gone viral after it was posted to Facebook by a ranch in Cimarron, northern New Mexico.

On its salty surface, the Dead Sea is famous for making giddy tourists float like beach balls.

In the early 1930s, the Bremen docked regularly on the Hudson River by West 46th Street — and it was a wonder.

Greenland's fastest-flowing and fastest-thinning glacier recently threw a real brain bender at scientists, who realized that instead of shrinking, the glacier is actually growing thicker, they reported in a new study.

Two incredible new images from the Hubble Space Telescope show galaxies in all their shining glory.

Scientists have looked far and wide for life in the universe, but a new study suggests that ancient asteroid impacts may have "produced key ingredients for life" right next door —  Mars.

A young African elephant died at the Indianapolis Zoo on Tuesday of an incurable type of herpesvirus, becoming the zoo’s second young elephant to die from the virus in a week.

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called on NASA to step up its game and land astronauts on the moon within five years, “by any means necessary.”

Why hasn't Earth received any messages from extraterrestrials yet?

India says it has successfully test-fired an anti-satellite weapon in an unexpected announcement juIndia became the fourth country to successfully use an anti-satellite weapon after it shot down one of its low earth orbit satellites Wednesday - an act which Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed as the country’s first demonstration of its “space power.”st weeks before a general election.

About 60 dead spiny dogfish sharks have washed up on beaches in New Jersey over the weekend, according to authorities.

An extremely rare ancient royal charter was discovered in an unlikely place by a researcher working in the United Kingdom.