A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

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In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Along with Blue Ghost, NASA launched the Tenacious lunar rover from Japanese company ispace. It's one of the smallest ...

A retired educator, he’s also an acclaimed artist, writer, poet, creator of soundscapes, armchair scientist and philosopher, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The “smell of rain” isn’t just a figment of your imagination. Human noses can detect chemical ...