NASA's skywatching tips for November include the moon "gliding" past three planets, a partial lunar eclipse, and the return of...
Deteriorating and shifting bird populations could forever alter the natural soundtracks of our lives.
Nasa's huge new space observatory must survive a daunting series of deployments if it's to work.
It harks back to a 19th-century idea about evolution
In an increasingly desertifying planet, these gene candidates could save some of our food crops.
According to a new op-ed by Harvard Prof. Avi Loeb, our Universe may have been created by an advanced civilization, something...
Our genomes are built from the tiny chromosomes of a small spineless creature that lived 684 million years ago.
Pinnipeds -- a group including seals, sea lions and walruses -- are relatively recently derived marine mammals that evolved from...
NASA’s chief economist Alexander MacDonald said aggressive competition for space agency contracts is “one of the most exciting...
A new astrogeology study suggests that most nearby rocky exoplanets are quite unlike anything in our Solar System.