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NASA's InSight Mars Lander has deployed its first instrument, a seismometer, on the surface of the Red Planet.

Three space station crewmembers returned to Earth today (Dec.

Some of the creatures first discovered in 2018 were sought by researchers — on missions to make historical finds in the depths of the ocean or deep in a cave — while others were an unexpected surprise.

NASA has serious plans to send astronauts back to the moon by 2028, and the agency is looking for help from U.S. companies to develop technology to accomplish this feat.

A mysterious light with a twisting, smoking tail appeared in the early evening sky over the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday, but local astronomers had a scientific explanation.

A pair of sand goannas were caught on video last week, apparently duking it out with one another in Australia.

Researchers have discovered fossil evidence that at least one shark in the Cretaceous age caught its food — a flying reptile — in midair.

Dinosaur researchers have discovered fossil evidence that at least one shark in the Cretaceous age caught its food — a flying reptile — in midair.

On July 20, 1969, NASA astronaut Frank Borman watched with President Nixon in the White House as his colleague Neil Armstrong took his historic first steps on the Moon.

On the morning of Dec. 21, 1968 NASA’s Apollo 8 spacecraft lifted off atop a Saturn V rocket from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center on humanity's first journey to another world.

An unusually long toxic algae bloom, also known as the red tide, is likely to blame for a shortage of stone crabs (a popular delicacy during the holiday season) in Florida this year.

Beachgoers across the world discovered stunning sea creatures this year — as strong currents and storms pushed them to the surface.

Cyclonic winds, rushing down from Alaska had nothing else to batter against, so they smacked into the water across miles of open ocean.

Researchers have uncovered the most-distant celestial object in the solar system, a pink dwarf planet nicknamed "Farout," detect at a distance of more than 100 times farther than the Earth is from the Sun.

A humongous fungus lurking underground in Michigan is exceptionally old, tremendously heavy and has a curiously low mutation rate, a new study finds.

WASHINGTON — An enormous pyramid-like structure in Indonesia that may represent the remains of an ancient temple hid underground for thousands of years.

Adrien Locatelli, from Grenoble in France, translated religious passages into DNA code to build unknown proteins which he then injected into his body.

A hairy collection worth thousands goes on display at the Philadelphia Museum of History. Collector, Robert Peck, couldn’t believe whose hair he rescued from the trash.

Excavations in Israel are shedding new light on the history of a Biblical site linked to the Ark of the Covenant.

A "treasure trove" of dinosaur footprints — from at least seven different species — that date back about 100 million years have been uncovered by storm surge in the United Kingdom, researchers from the University of Cambridge revealed on Monday.