Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

The next time you pick up a prescription, its secret to success might not have been discovered in a lab on Earth, but on a station orbiting 250 miles above it. While it sounds like science fiction, ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Diamonds are made out of carbon — highly organized carbon, that is. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago.

A half-century ago, George Clinton debuted a $500,000 spaceship that turned his live concerts into intergalactic journeys.

Google Earth’ for human organs made available online An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced, in ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

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The Export-Import Bank is providing a $10 billion loan to Project Vault, an initiative to stockpile critical minerals. The ...

The satellite, launched 14 years ago, will make an uncontrolled re-entry Tuesday evening. NASA puts the risk of harm to anyone on Earth at "approximately 1 in 4,200." ...

Initially launched on a two-year mission, the probe spent almost 14 years in space—and its twin is still orbiting the Earth.