NASA’s Nicole Mann, who is the first Native American woman to fly in space, was among the four astronauts who returned back to Earth Saturday after spending more than five months at the International Space Station.
Only 6 inches across and a rosy pink color, it held 60 million years of history.
Here’s what we know so far about the latest variant to raise eyebrows—and the first to do so in several months.
A new study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found remarkable differences.
A well-preserved sabertooth skull found in southwest Iowa may have been one of the last of the species to walk the planet as glaciers receded and temperatures rose, according to researchers.
Physicists have long known that protons are more massive than the stuff that makes them up, but we didn’t know where that mass was located. Now we do.
The Earth’s magnetic field protects us, and our orbiting tech, from the worst effects of the Sun’s energetic rays. But our magnetic field has a dent in it.
Weeks after implementing a company-wide furlough, struggling space launch company Virgin Orbit officially calls it quits.
City’s historic preservation board Tuesday will review new analysis of what experts contend may constitute most significant archaeological finds made in Brickell area in 25 years.
After testing its FLEX rover in the California desert last year, Astrolab is now making plans to transport the vehicle to the Moon. The astronautics startup signed an agreement with SpaceX to deliver Astrolab’s first lunar rover to the Moon on a future Starship mission.
A bizarre object called "the Cow" is the flattest explosion ever detected, and the first example of a rare phenomenon called a fast blue optical transient (FBOT).
Scientists film a species of snailfish swimming at an extraordinary depth, breaking the current record.
Scientists were driving through the rainforest of Madagascar when something caught their attention.
Satellite swarms built and operated by SpaceX and OneWeb are poised to fundamentally alter the way in which we access the internet and where we connect to the grid. On the surface, the two internet service offerings would seem to be in competition with each other, but this isn’t exactly the case.
As much as 330 billion tons of water could be embedded in the Moon’s surface, a new study from China suggests. The estimate comes from the analysis of small glass beads — also known as impact glasses, spherules or microtektites — uncovered in lunar soil samples collected by Beijing’s Chang'e-5 mission in December 2020. Each bead is approximately the width of one to several human hairs.
Scientists have observed that some of Neptune's Trojan asteroids are deep red, possibly revealing what asteroids may have been like in the early days of the solar system.
The organization will lay off about 85 percent of its staff.
A new 13-sided shape is the first example of an elusive "einstein" — a single shape that can be tiled infinitely without repeating a pattern.
In February 2021, NASA landed a $2.7 billion rover on Mars that has been roaming the Red Planet ever since. The space agency got what it paid for, as the largely autonomous Perseverance rover has been dutifully collecting rock core samples from Mars and storing them for the first sample return mission from another planet.
The rings of Saturn are heating the planet’s atmosphere. The phenomenon has never been seen before in the solar system, NASA said.
Nasa is expected to name the first female astronaut to fly to the Moon on Monday as part of its plan to land a woman on the lunar surface for the first time.
