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The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them back to Earth.
New research suggests that thicker shoes might make it harder to know your optimal running style.
Researchers have captured rare video of whale shark courtship behavior, revealing intimate details of the largest fish in the sea.
The long-lived, one-eyed wolf 907F died this Christmas after a fight with a rival wolf pack, Yellowstone researchers have confirmed.
The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new milestone in stellar astronomy.
The debut of the partially reusable New Glenn rocket could give SpaceX a run for its money.
The patient acquired bird flu from backyard chickens.
Scientists have stumbled upon an entirely new way for icy worlds to collide and form binary pairs in space.
The sonic booms have caused late-night disruptions for residents as far as 70 miles away.
As early as this Friday, SpaceX will test its megarocket with several upgrades and attempt to deploy Starlink mockups.
The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock for study on Earth.
A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and beyond.
In 2018, scientists documented the same orca mother carrying her dead calf for 17 days across more than 1,000 miles of water.
OneWeb managed to restore its services after a 48-hour outage.
Less than half of Americans know alcohol can cause cancer, prompting the U.S. surgeon general to push for clearer warning labels and public health reforms.
The Quadrantids will peak on Friday, dazzling night skies with 20 to 30 meteors per hour.
The researchers estimate that a lifelong smoker is expected to live about ten fewer years on average than a nonsmoker.
The piece of space debris is believed to be a separation ring from a rocket, according to Kenya's space agency.
At least five trackways were found in Oxfordshire, revealing a dynamic environment from about 166 million years ago.
Forty years after having them removed, Katy Golden's tonsils returned to stir up trouble again.
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