In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to not only land on and launch from an asteroid (Itokawa), but successfully ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts think they might even survive right up until the Sun dies.

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves a satellite using the plasma exhaust of its ion engine to knock dangerous ...

(While the iron oxide on the Moon does not turn it red, to go along with the concept of 'rusting', the thumbnail image — provided by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio — depicts the Moon with a ...

With oceans showing dangerous levels of acidity, seven of nine crucial planetary boundaries – the limits beyond which Earth risks becoming uninhabitable for humans – have now been breached, climate ...

"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

It's been five years since a sudden shift in the wind brought the North Complex fire roaring up a remote canyon into the pines of Berry Creek, where it incinerated almost all of the more than 1,500 ...

Scientists have discovered that the Moon is rusting due to oxygen particles originating from Earth. These particles travel through space and interact with iron-rich minerals on the lunar surface, ...

On Tuesday, Metropica celebrated another groundbreaking at 2000 Metropica Way. When the work is done, three towers with more than 1,000 apartments will be standing along with 150,000 square feet ...

Satellites reveal 85 new lakes beneath Antarctica’s ice, exposing a shifting underworld that influences glaciers and future sea-level rise.