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Thousands of scientists and science enthusiasts of all ages flooded the streets of Washington despite a drizzling rain Saturday (April 22) in a March for Science to show their support for the scientific work that has mad...

Planet-hunters Natalie Batalha, Michael Gillon and Guillem Anglada-Escudé have been named to Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people for their exoplanet research.

Carbon is a building block of life on our planet. It is stored in reservoirs on Earth - in rocks, plants and soil - in the oceans, and in the atmosphere. And it cycles constantly between these reservoirs.

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 to explore and document our solar system and the interstellar space beyond. The craft will drift for billions of years in the emptiness, each carrying a Golden Record inscribed with...

Thousands of people joined a global March for Science on Saturday with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight against what many see as an "assault on facts" by populist politicians. The movement was echoed in hu...

On April 20, Expedition 51-52 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos launched to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, from ...

Thomas Pesquet: Watching the Soyuz fly around International Space Station and following the process of docking....

Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman drove a battery-powered Hummer at the front of the March for Science satellite rally in Los Angeles yesterday (April 22), and discussed his concern for how well humans are taking car...

(Experimental Biology 2017) Extraterrestrial life, if it exists, could use different amino acid building blocks than living things here on Earth. To better understand what alien life might look like, researchers are stud...