NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is currently poised to launch and become the most powerful telescope in space. But how will its photos compare to Hubble's?
Here's the science and psychology behind why drinking a warm glass of milk may help you fall asleep.
The Brazilian wandering spider, also called the banana spider, is one of the planet's most venomous spiders.
During the last ice age, five mammoths — a baby, two juveniles and two adults — died at a «graveyard» in what is now the United Kingdom.
The sun is in its main sequence, but how do scientists know when our nearest star will begin to call it quits?
Comet Leonard may be sparking meteor showers at Venus this weekend during a relatively close approach of the comet to the planet.
NASA will provide coverage of prelaunch, launch, and postlaunch activities for the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest and most powerful space science telescope.
The mysterious presence of mantle materials more than 1,000 miles (1,609 km) from where they originated may be explained by a 'window' 62 miles (100 kilometers) below the Earth's surface.
A geomagnetic event around 41,000 years ago sent the aurora wandering for centuries, as far south as the equator.
If humans suddenly went extinct, what animals are most likely to develop human-like societies?
The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.
Knowing which muscles are used when cycling can help you achieve the maximum benefits from your rides.
The shots should still help prevent severe disease.
NASA has awarded the Marshall Engineering Technicians and Trades Support (METTS) III contract to RSi-QuantiTech JV LLC of Huntsville, Alabama, to provide a wide range of engineering technicians and trade skills, as well as professional and management oversight of the technical staff at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabam
The northern lights appear in the sky when charged particles from the sun slam into molecules in the atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of colorful lights.
There may be a silver lining to breakthrough infections, although they obviously still carry risks.
An infant burial discovered in the Italian Alps sheds light on how the hunter-gatherers of Europe dealt with issues of personhood and status 10,000 years ago.
Police in Jerusalem seized a hoard of stolen antiquities that date to a 1,900-year-old Jewish rebellion against the Romans.
Payloads: Cold Atom Lab (CAL): To address a boot-up issue which was first seen in mid-November, the crew gained access to the CAL interior components and exchanged the Solid-State Drive (SSD) on the Central Processing Unit (CPU) card. This should allow the CAL to resume nominal operations and science collection. CAL produces clouds of atoms …
In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a side-on view of NGC 3568, a barred spiral galaxy roughly 57 million light-years from the Milky Way in the constellation Centaurus.
A new study of swarming bacteria has created microscope images that resemble Vincent van Gogh's paintings.
Conspiracy theories that have taken hold range from a faked moon landing to Barack Obama's birthplace to chemtrails.
The hidden water was found at a site as large as the Netherlands.
Many complex processes go on inside the human body every day.
NASA has assigned two crew members to launch on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission – the sixth crew rotation flight aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.
