"All that remained was the particular flat shape."

Rocket Lab launched a satellite for a "confidential commercial customer" on Thursday morning (Nov. 20), just a few hours after giving notice of the impending liftoff.

SpaceX began testing the newest version of its Starship Super Heavy booster overnight Thursday (Nov. 20), but by Friday morning (Nov. 21), it was clear those tests did not go as planned.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A towering first-stage booster for an upgraded version of SpaceX's Starship rocket suffered a predawn testing failure in Texas on ​Friday, potentially complicating the company's push to prove the rocket's moon-landing abilities ‌for NASA, according to observers who captured it on video. Elon Musk's SpaceX had rolled the stainless steel booster out to ‌a testing pad on Thursday at the company's Starbase rocket facilities, saying it intended to test its redesigned propellant

For years, researchers have questioned who created the “band of holes” site in Peru. A new study suggests it was an ancient marketplace.

The brief flashes were captured from Earth and could be from the Taurid meteor shower.

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"This discovery ends a protracted search for these waves that has its origins in the 1940s."

Paleontologists spotted injuries on the tails of duck-billed dinosaur fossils that might have occurred during mating.

China's Shenzhou 20 and 21 astronauts enjoyed freshly cooked BBQ aboard the Tiangong space station recently, thanks to a new microgravity oven.

Scientists working in Mexico have recorded multiple incidents in which a group of orcas hunt young great white sharks and eat their energy-rich livers.

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic display.

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NASA released new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS — just the third cosmic visitor from elsewhere in the galaxy ever confirmed — on Wednesday.

Multiple NASA missions captured images as an interstellar comet zoomed by Mars in October.

NASA unveiled close-up pictures on Wednesday of the interstellar comet that’s making a quick one-and-done tour of the solar system. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star. Three NASA spacecraft on and near the red planet zoomed in on the comet as it passed just 18 million miles (29 million kilometers) away, revealing a fuzzy white blob.

Ape ancestors and early humans likely kissed their friends and sexual partners, according to a new study.

Astronomer Gianluca Masi captured breathtaking imagery of solar system comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaking into multiple pieces after being warmed by the sun.

This image shows Euclid's capability to explore both our cosmic neighborhood and the deep universe beyond.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks,

An archeological investigation into an ancient city in central Asia has shed new light on the region's economic history.

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -A clay figurine about 12,000 years old that was unearthed at the site of a prehistoric village overlooking the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel depicts a woman and a goose

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can’t see, such as what foods different people are able to digest.

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" for an ancient marine creature that used Earth's

This is great news for planetary defense.

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.

With more Moon missions on the horizon, avoiding crowding and collisions will be a growing challenge