“The flight was extremely normal for the first 36 seconds, and after that it got very interesting," Conrad recalled in the ...

An animation using data from the European Space Agency (ESA) allows you to "listen" to Earth's magnetic field being disrupted ...

A cross July 14-15, 1965 (depending on your time zone), the Mariner 4 mission was doing something incredible. This early NASA ...

It’s said the outflow of the Amazon into the Atlantic Ocean is equivalent to 219,000 cubic meters of water per second (7.7 ...

W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater.

This whole class of astronomical objects has set off a search for causes, but even the most likely previous theories don’t ...

Nearly 60 percent of the world population will be in a good place to see the entire eclipse from beginning to end.

The mystery microbe seemingly straddles the line between living and non-living. It’s cellular, and can create its own ...

Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...

Pupping grounds, where mother sharks deliver and their babies start their lives, are unknown, despite the pups being ...

TLP were once assumed to be very rare. Amateur astronomers would note they had only witnessed a handful of flashes after hundreds of hours of telescopic lunar observation. However, modern estimates ...

As Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Paul Griffin explains in a recent piece for The Conversation, Stratus is ...