A NASA mission will send twin spacecraft to Mars to learn what happened to the Red Planet's ancient, thick atmosphere.

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

James Watson helped his research partners to discover the double helix structure of DNA and died of unknown causes at an East ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

I/ATLAS image released by Japanese space agency has gained attention online after a possible visual of the interstellar comet ...

Saturn's Enceladus moon might be capable of supporting life, according to data collected by NASA's Cassini mission and ...

Many of my physiologic systems replicated somebody who's 20 or 30 years older than me.” Now there may be a solution: robot ...

Excess heat is flowing from the north pole of Enceladus, hinting at a careful energy balance deep that may have kept the ...

First, a quick overview: the Milky Way is classified as a disk galaxy, with a broad circular collection of stars, gas and ...

Despite claims of being humane and painless, the use of nitrogen gas for executions and assisted suicide causes air hunger, panic and violent physiological distress.