One of the most enduring questions in anthropology is why Neanderthals, our closest extinct human relatives, completely ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...

The Trump administration wants to significantly cut NASA’s budget next year, slashing science research funding in half, a ...

ELVIS, or Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System, is a holographic microscope that can deliver detailed 3D views of cells and ...

Unsurprisingly, the media has focused on Pettit's age, as the astronaut turned 70 on the very day he returned to Earth. At ...

The Fram2 crew will be the first people to observe the polar regions from low Earth orbit, and they'll work on experiments and projects designed to forward our understanding of long-duration ...

The surface of Mars is extremely cold, irradiated, and desiccated. But at one time, the planet was much warmer and wetter, ...

According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive ...

Testing Einstein’s relativity, measuring fundamental constants, and even searching for dark matter are all on the cards ...

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around ...

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

Researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions -- and it could change our understanding of how life began. Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less ...