The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

Democrat George Whitesides won election to a U.S. House seat representing California on Tuesday, defeating Republican Rep. Mike Garcia. Democrats have long sought to flip this Los Angeles County ...

"The findings not only provide further evidence to support the theory of a Martian ocean but also present, for the first time ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

Jonny Kim—a former Navy SEAL and ER doctor—is now a NASA astronaut who will soon launch to the International Space Station as ...

The modified robot dog can track chemical, biological and nuclear material. And yes, it is named after the 2015 sci-fi movie.

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

It is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit at Johnson Space ...

The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...