Science vessels were first responders to unknown dangers, making them far more expendable than larger cruisers.

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...

The project is expected to enable pioneering discoveries by scientists around the world, and ultimately deliver a time-lapse ...

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem ...

A young mother remains in hospital after being bitten by a shark at Coogee beach in Sydney on Saturday morning. Leah Stewart, 35, was swimming about 30 metres offshore when the shark – believed to be ...

Scientists still don’t know where ghostly particles called neutrinos originate. A distant galaxy could be a potential source.

Earlier this week, Jody Zerbst’s daughter made headlines, all because childhood curiosity got the better of her.

Hold up your hand and look at it for a second. The iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones, the oxygen you are breathing right now. Every one of those atoms is far older than the Earth itself.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The French cargo ship SS Grandcamp was loaded with over 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in Texas City, TX. When the ammonium nitrate ...

Fireworks displays on Independence Day are created by the combination of different metal salts, which emit light at unique ...

Equipped with the world’s largest digital camera built for astronomy, the observatory will repeatedly scan the southern sky and create an unprecedented time-lapse record of cosmic changes ...