As the US sets its sights on establishing a permanent base on the moon, its foothold in an area of space much closer to home ...

The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking ...

A spacecraft could plunge into Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Tuesday. While most of the probe will likely burn up during reentry, a few components are expected to survive.

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of ...