Japan’s catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to “slip” by as much as ...

Next summer, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its way there, it has studied ...

The partnership marks the latest foray in to space exploration for Relativity Space, which aims to build cheap, reusable ...

Construction of the Deep Synoptic Array is about to start in rural Nevada. It will reveal untold galaxies in stunning detail ...

A veil of salty clouds has been discovered on a puffy “pink planet” that has evaded imaging for more than a decade because it ...

On Thursday Knicks fans are flocking to Manhattan for a ticker-tape parade. But where did ticker tape even come from?

The effort to pull some 900 ocean-monitoring buoys and sensors from the water drew backlash from scientists and lawmakers ...

Tropical Storm Arthur is the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season and will bring heavy rains and potential ...

Graves of hunter-gatherers in Siberia point to a deadly disease outbreak dating to some 5,500 years ago, a new DNA analysis ...

This year will go down in history as the year a person became a trillionaire for the first time—on paper, at least. Elon Musk ...

Galapagos sharks have been spotted scrubbing off parasites with help from manta rays ...

Some mathematicians have predicted when humanity’s downfall might occur—though the circumstances are unspecified ...