SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first...
Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is about to launch its space vehicle – the Crew Dragon – with astronauts onboard for the first time. Here, we answer...
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team has uncovered how bats can carry the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus without getting sick — research that...
India will allow the involvement of private companies in its space exploration and satellite launch programs, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a press conference on Saturday....
A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered a black hole lying just 1000 light-years from Earth. The black...
Paleontologists have unearthed the oldest fossil belonging to the hominin species Homo erectus. The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, suggests...
Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of...
Researchers reported in a paper published Friday their discovery of the first coprolites, or fossil feces, found in an asphaltic environment. Hundreds of fossilized rodent pellets...
A rich source of carbon and other nutrients has been discovered in groundwater atop Arctic permafrost, scientists say in a paper published Friday. The paper, published in...
It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Now an upcoming...
