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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made its historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu Tuesday, retrieving a sample from the space rock that will be returned to Earth.

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed another trove of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, authorities said Monday.

Nearly two weeks after the Draconid meteor shower lit up the night skies, the Orionid meteor shower will do the same this week, giving stargazers a great view.

At least seven people have been charged in an "elaborate" flying squirrel trafficking scheme in which poachers in Florida caught thousands of the rodents before selling them to buyers in Asia, officials said on Monday.

Volunteers in South Carolina checking on sea turtles on Sunday made a surprise discovery when they came across a rare, white sea turtle hatchling. 

Scientists have discovered two planets orbiting a red dwarf, including a "Super-Earth," just 120 light-years from Earth.

This was a bloody reminder just because summer is over that sharks are still lurking in the waters off Massachusetts.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will make its historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu Tuesday.

More than 7 million Americans have become ill with COVID-19, resulting in the deaths of more than 215,000 people. Now, researchers are worried that wildlife species, in particular, one species of whale, could contract the deadly virus.

An asteroid the size of London's famous Big Ben clock tower is set to whiz past Earth this week.

Musk made the comments during the International Mars Society Convention, speaking via Zoom.

A 12-year-old boy in Canada has found fossils that paleontologists have hailed as a “significant” dinosaur discovery.

NASA has awarded a $2.8 million grant to the Indiana Space Grant Consortium, which is headquartered at Purdue University.

Old Faithful, the famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park, may go silent after erupting continuously for nearly 800 years, experts have discovered.

For those hoping to see a UFO in the U.S., a research firm has compiled a list of the 10 best locations in the country for UFO enthusiasts to buy a home.

As NASA gets set to return to the moon in 2024 and head to Mars several years later, the space agency awarded a number of U.S. companies with contracts worth $370 million to help make these plans happen.

Experts believe a defunct Russian satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket could smash into each other high above the earth on Thursday, according to reports.

The biggest World War II bomb ever found in Poland exploded underwater on Tuesday as navy divers attempted to defuse it. 

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been severely damaged over the years, as widespread bleaching caused by rising temperatures and climate change negatively impact the structure. Now, a new study has put a firm figure on just how much of the reef has been lost over the past 25 years: a staggering 50%.

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins has reached the International Space Station after the Soyuz spacecraft carrying her and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov completed a fast-track, two-orbit rendezvous path to the orbiting space lab.