Curiosity rover has returned its first 360-degree color panorama from the surface of Mars. The robot used its wideangle science…
Researchers have discovered that fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago.…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has lifted its mast and used its high navigation cameras for the first time. The robot vehicle…
Images of the surface of Mars taken by the Curiosity rover as it made its historic descent yesterday have now…
The US government has settled its legal case against the iconic Gibson Guitar company over use of illegal timber from…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has just landed on Mars. The one-ton vehicle was reported to have landed in a deep crater…
The Curiosity rover remains perfectly on course to make its Monday (GMT) landing on the Red Planet, NASA says. The…
To understand how fast a human can ultimately run, we need to go beyond the record books and understand how…
Curiosity, the big robot rover NASA is sending to Mars, looks in excellent shape for its Monday (GMT) landing. Curiosity…
Scientists drilling deep into the edge of modern Antarctica have pulled up proof that palm trees once grew there. Analyses…
US divers have found what appear to be remains of a crew of an Army amphibious plane that went down…
Rome's world famous Colosseum is now around 40 cm (16 inches) lower on the south side than on the north.…
Images taken by NASA spacecraft Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter (LRO) show that the American flags planted in the Moon's soil by…
Scientists have proposed a new idea in the long-running debate over the Moon formation. What is certain is that some…
Greenland's massive ice sheet has melted this month over an usually large area, NASA has said. Scientists said the "unprecedented"…
TIGHAR's expedition to find out what happened to celebrated pilot Amelia Earhart is returning to Hawaii without the evidence it…
Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel into space, has died aged 61, 17 months after she was diagnosed…
It is well known that Earth is unique as the only planet in the solar system which can sustain life.…
Japan will investigate a report that workers at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were urged to disguise their…
A newly discovered water source in Namibia could have a major impact on development in the driest country in sub-Saharan…
Physicist Franco Bocci has put forth new ideas in the long-running question of how best to keep dry when moving…
The Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland has calved an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan, scientists say. Images from a…
Wildlife trade watchdog Traffic has found that the Solomon Islands has become a hub for "laundering" wild birds into the…
Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the American Institute of Physics, has shared a unique video of a blast…
Israeli scientists have found a novel way to get images through "scattering" materials such as frosted glass or skin, and…