Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Friday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico to close out an extended 235-day expedition to the International Space Station.

at least from the viewpoints of skywatchers on the ground — later on in the day. Although Thursday's routes do mark the closest recorded Earth approaches to date for these asteroids, their paths ...

World Development Information Day reminds us of how imperative international cooperation needs to become more intense in pursuit of development. Science ... raising activities toward an ...

These four rock stars are embarking on a world tour. NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to ...

Brighton, N.Y. — Local students were treated to an exciting day of exploring the science of light at the Thorlabs Mobile Photonic Lab Experience. Students from Monroe Community College and ...

Here’s how it works. If you were to imagine all of Earth's history as just one day, as in Carl Sagan's cosmic calendar, humans wouldn't arrive until the last few seconds before midnight.

of Earth on Oct. 25, 2040. Harry is a U.K.-based senior staff writer at Live Science. He studied marine biology at the University of Exeter before training to become a journalist. He covers a wide ...

Science in the United States has never been stronger by most measures. Over the past five years, the nation has won more scientific Nobel prizes than the rest of the world combined — in line ...

The new findings, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, suggest that this massive collision not only brought destruction to Earth ...

Earth will be afforded even more dazzling displays of aurora borealis activity. If you're a stargazer ... Macdonald runs a citizen science platform called Aurorasaurus that allows people to ...

Scientists paint a compelling picture of what happened the day the S2 meteorite crashed into Earth 3.26 billion years ... shutting down any photosynthetic activity taking place.

Drabon’s team paints the most compelling picture to date of what happened the day a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests paid Earth a visit. “Picture yourself standing off the coast of ...