Astronauts orbiting Earth recently photographed not one but two comets while an aurora show danced below them. The ...

"In December 1965, NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION was asked by NASA to come up with a bold rescue plan to save astronauts from the moon if anything went wrong. This is their plan. By the middle of the 1960s, ...

Tesla might be in shambles, and Twitter might be a shell of its former self, but there is one venture Elon Musk has found success in: filling our atmosphere with high-tech garbage. Recent footage ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Taylor Lonner, University of Colorado Boulder and Torin Clark, University of Colorado ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has seized more than 100,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in the past two months, the agency said Tuesday, including narcotics from a suspected drug smuggling ...

The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, Italy, his office at the International School for Advanced ...

Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates alike. But ...

Col. Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle. Collins commanded the first flight after the 2003 Columbia tragedy, which also experienced a foam-shedding issue.

NASA plans to use the X-59, an experimental vehicle, to fly faster than the speed of sound without generating sonic booms.