Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

The rise of Star Trek fandom didn't begin in a convention hall packed with thousands of fans-it started, improbably, in a public library. On March 1, 1969, just weeks before Star Trek would ...

Ballistic missiles were fired toward the joint US-UK Diego Garcia military base on an island in the Indian Ocean, around 2,370 miles from Iran’s coast. Follow for live news updates.

Previously unreleased photos show astronaut Neil Armstrong in the aftermath of a space mission that almost took his life ...

A laser-based system that can create mesh-like structures in a dish that resemble the cytoskeletons of cells has been developed by two RIKEN researchers. They demonstrated its usefulness for research ...

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of ...

Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...