Just in May of this year, the Soviets struck a ground target from orbit. Never mind that they didn't intend to; in fact, never mind that there are no 'Soviets' anymore. A piece of Cosmos 482, a rocket ...

The surface of Venus is scoured with strange, quasi-circular features called coronae. Unlike anything seen on Earth today, they can stretch hundreds of miles in diameter, even going past the thousand ...

We’ve known for quite some time that molten rock gouged enormous tunnels into the surface of the Earth, the Moon, and Mars. In fact, scientists have proposed that the vast lava tubes under the surface ...

Even now, upperclassmen can still make me feel like I’m back in high school — awkward, nerdy, and definitely not one of the “cool kids.” I suddenly find myself slipping back into teenage insecurities.

In 1908, archaeologists digging on the banks of the Danube near the Austrian village of Willendorf in der Wachau stumbled upon a striking object: a 4.3-inch statuette of a faceless woman with a ...

NASA has awarded ASCEND Aerospace & Technology a potential $1.8 billion contract to provide spaceflight mission support services at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The space agency said ...

On Aug. 25 and 26, Venus will dance with Saturn and Neptune retrograde, presenting the opportunity to turn your dreams into a reality Your dreams are knocking, and the cosmos is responding! Between ...

This is a preview of Access Health—Tap here to get this newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. It started the moment that I stepped off the jet bridge in Madison, Wisconsin. And it only got ...

One of the big challenges in communicating about space and space-time is that the universe is so large the scales are very difficult to imagine. Even just trying to get a sense of our solar system can ...

"Challenging long-held assumptions is essential to scientific progress." A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...