Astronauts Sunita Williams, who grew up in Needham, and Butch Wilmore have been living on the space station since June after ...

NASA will wait at least another two days to launch its next space station crew, delaying the return of Starliner astronauts ...

The Earth is absorbing more sunlight and trapping more heat than it releases into space, causing our planet to warm up at an ...

But eclipses aren't only an entertaining astronomical show — they have practical implications for science, too. While ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

Alien: Earth has an ensemble cast featuring Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, David Rysdahl, ...

Though it has some of the world's most significant reserves, Latin America has not emerged as a key player in the rare earth ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in ...

After spending 434 days in space, the crewless Space Force craft returned to Earth on March 7, landing at California's ...