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A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart and will be hauled back to dry land for repairs.

Elon Musk shared concept artwork showing what the completed Starship test vehicle will look like on Saturday.

Russia's space agency on Saturday demanded an explanation after NASA postponed indefinitely a planned visit by Russia's space chief. 

The demand for ivory has sparked a “mammoth rush” in Siberia amid the discovery of preserved tusks of woolly mammoths and the increasing bans on international trade of elephant ivory.

Some 700 years ago, before mankind began pumping carbon into the atmosphere and warming the climate, the Earth chilled in a centuries-long cooling event called the Little Ice Age.

NASA has announced the latest discoveries from the New Horizons spacecraft’s historic flyby of Ultima Thule in the far reaches of our solar system.

When the United States launched its first secret "spy satellites," in the 1960s, the onboard cameras captured never-before-seen views of Earth's surface.

When maths teacher Danny Marcok woke up yesterday, he was surprised to see a tail hanging from his split-system air conditioner.

China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a stunning new image of the tracks made by the lunar rover that landed on the far side of the lunar surface.

Two more killer whales in Puget Sound are in poor health and will likely be dead by the summer, according to an expert on the critically endangered population of orcas.

The Big Bang is generally accepted to have occurred roughly 13.7 billion years ago, a time when the universe contained light elements, the heaviest among them hydrogen. From there, elements with significant heft permeated throughout the universe as we know it today.

An astronaut has told how he accidentally rang 911 from space - sending security teams at NASA's Houston base into a frenzy.

A 2,300-year-old fortress that protected an ancient port called "Berenike" has been discovered in Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea by a Polish-American archaeological team.

A new study published in the scientific journal PLOS theorizes that the aforementioned breeds have their distinct tails linked to the genetic mutation known as DISHEVELLED 2 or DVL2.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured an intriguing image of a volcanic plume straddling the line between day and night on Jupiter's notoriously eruptive moon Io .

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered the first known temple of the “Flayed Lord” a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse.

Humans are preparing to punch the solar system — but in self-defense, not anger.

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known human burial in lower Central America: the skeletal remains of a mysterious woman who lived 5,900 years ago in what is now Nicaragua, a new study finds.

LAUREL, Md. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.

Dark matter, it seems, has been clinging to galaxies for a very long time.