Once in the correct area, the rocket would begin to hurtle back down to Earth and land on a soft pad, thus saving the egg ...

The weekend trip was a success for Space Perspective, the company that already has more than 1,800 people waiting for their ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

Later this month, an asteroid called 2024 PT5 will be joining Earth's orbit, becoming a mini-moon. The mini-moon will be in ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

Since 1988, 71% of all the world’s carbon emissions have been produced by just 100 companies. Their operations are largely to blame for the climate crisis we now face. A crisis that costs the world ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

I am deeply troubled by the growing distrust of science in our society, just at the time when its insights are most needed.

A lecture series can promise much.  But one run out of a corporatised university comes with its own burdens and ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.