We've kept you up to date with New Horizon's progress, and the pictures it took of Pluto; now, after 10...

  Last night, Jupiter and Venus nearly converged on the night sky, being so close that you actually don't need...

NASA is preparing to send a drone to Mars by 2024 - they've already developed a small, lightweight craft that...

The effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are great and long reaching - a new study has found that pink...

Mars has over 250,000 craters created by asteroid impacts, the Moon has millions - too many to count. But the...

The whole media is abuzz after NASA released some pictures of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the...

Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified a warm Neptune-sized planet that is "bleeding" a huge hydrogen cloud - thus...

Researchers from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have been trying to figure...

Astronomers have discovered a whopping 854 new ultra-dark galaxies which might have large quantities of the elusive dark matter, which...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest known stars lurking in a super-luminous galaxy - they may very well be among the...

MIT researchers have managed to create incredibly cold molecules, much colder than even interstellar space. In this new experiment, sodium...

With NASA's New Horizons shuttle basically knocking on Pluto's door, Mark Showalter and Douglas Hamilton present new theories on Pluto's...

They call it "Tree 76", because it stands 76 meters tall (249 feet) above the Muir Woods floor in California....

For decades, researchers have studied our planet's orbit with growing interest: is there something special about the way the Earth...

It's not just the San Andreas fault - a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research reports that...

New controversial research concluded that dinosaurs weren't the cold blooded lizards we tend to see them today - instead, they...

An Alberta citizen discovered a trove of rare fossilized fish while digging up his basement. But Edgar Nernberg isn't a...

A new study shows once again that no place on Earth is safe from the effects of climate change. Even...

In the past couple of months, we've posted quite a lot of articles about the New Horizons spacecraft zooming in...

Sending a probe to look for alien life is just half of the work - it's the tools you send...

This Monday morning, a volcano perched on one of Ecuador's Galapagos islands erupted spewing lava on its side and dark...

There are millions and millions of photos under the public domain, and no doubt for some these can be nothing...

Astronomers have captured a glimpse in the life of a massive star, a brief transitory stage in its evolution that...

A stunning round solar halo caused a social media frenzy - people were out in the streets, taking photos, sharing...

An innovative concept might allow engineers to send probes on Mars in previously inaccessible locations. The project, called MARSDROP, would...

Astronauts onboard the ISS may soon get a new "toy" - a space laser cannon to blast off space debris...

Astronauts onboard the International Space Station were given a treat - they witnessed one of the most spectacular natural phenomenon...

A team of astronomers has discovered a unique system of quadruple quasars. The quartet, discovered at the very edge of...

Nine years and 3 billion miles later, New Horizon finally got close enough to Pluto to spot it along with...

The MESSENGER spacecraft spent four years orbiting Mercury, gathering valuable information and sending it back to Earth. But even in...

The proportions of fake animals, the subject of long and heated debates in the scientific community, have been revealed by...

In an article published in the Astrophysical Journal last week, astronomers described a massive halo around the Andromeda Galaxy, extending...

A team of astronomers from Yale and the University of California-Santa Cruz have looked back in time, discovering a galaxy...

Last week, the Sun ejected a huge solar filament - a gigantic burst of hot plasma - and a satellite...

A crater wall collapse in a Hawaiian volcano has triggered a powerful lava explosion. The Kilauea explosion spread lava and...

Highschool students analyzing data obtained with the 100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope have discovered an exotic pulsar with the...

Geologists have found a praying-mantis-like cockroach that lived at the side by side with the dinosaurs, 100 million years ago, during the...

The New Horizons spacecraft snapped a picture of Pluto - the best we have so far. NASA released the information...

Three babies aged six to eighteen months suffering from an incurable breathing condition were saved by doctors who printed a...

Just after NASA researchers made the bold claim that they will find alien life in less than 20 years, the...

The rate of global warming varies from year to year, and climate change deniers try to take advantage of this...

Good news for space exploration: Japan’s space agency JAXA revealed plans to land a rover on the Moon by 2018, joining...

Beneath one of the most famous touristic attractions in the world, the Yellowstone National Park, there lies one of the...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft already has an impressive resume - it's traveled to the strange area between Mars and Jupiter and...

Dealing with invasive species is one of the challenges that accompanies globalization and in many areas of the world, it's...

When it comes to alien life, we've had our hopes crushed time and time again. As the Moon was being...

Dr. Milton Wainwright is trying to convince the world that the found alien life floating some 25 miles in our...

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, if one galaxy is located directly behind another, then the front one would bend...

Marine life is on the brink of experiencing its sixth mass extinction, a disruption that is expected to occur very...

Mice that had gut bacteria transferred from other mice fed with a high fat diet changed their behavior in a...