It's wild to me that Beauty and the Beast was in theaters when scientists accepted the theory that a meteor killed the ...

Every August, humanity has a rendezvous with the cosmos. It is an ancient tradition, almost a rite of summer, to go out under the cover of night and wait for a "shooting star". The highest peak of the ...

About halfway through Missouri, Route 66 passes through St. Louis, a city with an abundance of stargazing opportunities. Start at the McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center, where ...

As the Solar System drifts through the Milky Way, it occasionally encounters regions of space capable of reshaping Earth’s ...

A newly surfaced NASA directive reveals a fast-tracked effort by the United States to deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon and Mars.

A conceptual mission known as "Persephone" could explore Pluto and its moons for 50 years — if it ever gets funded and ...

As the world warms, long-lost shipwrecks and frozen artifacts are emerging from eroding beaches and melting glaciers. But there's a downside.

A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought ...

Even the Alien franchise has transformed over the years, from the haunted-house-in-space horrors of 1979's Alien, to the ...

The sediments are evidence of massive glacial meltwater floods, called Siku events, that happened during the last Ice Age.

One of NASA's most traveled astronauts in the agency's first decade, Lovell flew four times: Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 ...