The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away from our planet in an orbit around the sun.

New research reports the most powerful cosmic rays ever detected. Because the rays lose energy as they travel through space, ...

A current key to stabilizing climates across the Atlantic and beyond could be one-third weaker by 2040, a new study has ...

The São Jorge was one of about 20 ships that joined da Gama for his final voyage in 1524, but it sank shortly before his ...

A safety net of balloon-mounted sensors listening for satellites and cell towers could save lives if an airplane's GPS ...

This mask, which is on display at the British Museum in London, is one of several turquoise objects that the Spanish ...

Black Friday and the Christmas sales are both great times to save money on the best science gifts, but is one better than the ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us.

Chinese scientists claim they have made a converging energy beam weapon — but did they really, or have they been watching too ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...

Miles of air cover Earth. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, the Kármán line, is about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface. However, about 99.9% of the mass of ...

Generative AI could saddle the planet with heaps more hazardous waste than ever before.