A three-month experiment with new crab gear technology designed to reduce the risk of whale entanglement has won over some ...

The whirling shapes in Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night closely resemble real turbulence, as seen in swirling ...

A NASA mission launching in October will send cameras and other scientific equipment to see, among other things, whether ...

For much of the Pacific Ocean as well as the southern part of South America ... In the Islamic calendar the months traditionally start with the first sighting of the waxing crescent Moon. Many Muslim ...

NASA on Monday approved next month’s launch to Jupiter’s moon Europa after reviewing the spacecraft’s ability to withstand the intense radiation there.

A partial lunar eclipse is set to occur on September 17 and will be visible in regions including Europe, Asia, Africa, and ...

Anna McLean Joynson of Venice, Florida, and Jenny D'Anthony of Jacksonville become youngest female pair to row to Hawaii.

Their radical plan? Load those samples up onto a cosmic Noah's Ark and ship them off to the moon. In the proposal, published in July in the journal BioScience, an international team of experts ...

This week, the moon has been hanging out with not one, but three different planets on three different days. The three planets -- Jupiter, Mars and Mercury -- have been in conjunction with the moon ...

The night sky will remain pretty hot as the temperatures slowly drop, thanks to the opportunity to see six planets before you head to school or work, Venus next to a crescent moon, and even a ...

With so many launches, Denemark said, it's "getting harder and harder" to find new locations from which to shoot the launches, especially those with local landmarks.Start the day smarter. Get all the ...

Some 480 million miles away, an ocean — harboring perhaps twice the water of Earth's seas — sloshes beneath the icy surface of Europa. NASA's going there. This moon of Jupiter has long ...