Phobos and Deimos are small, lifeless, and...

Earth's temperature could drop by 5 degrees Celsius, which means major farming regions would struggle to grow...

A new Mayo Clinic study of vaping-related lung injuries finds that "toxic chemical fumes," not oils, may be the...

Today's landing of a Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan brought one of the shortest recent stays on the International Space Station to an end, as part of a plan for one of the longest stays. The first representative of the United Arab Emirates to fly in space, Hazzaa Ali Almansoori, was part of the returning trio, along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russia's Alexey Ovchinin. All three...

You might soon be able to watch hours of real-time video of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way...

A leading science facility in the English countryside is helping in a bid to decipher Roman-era scrolls carbonised in the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. Researchers led by antiquities decoder Professor Brent Seales have turned to Diamond, Britain's national synchrotron in Didcot, Oxfordshire, to examine the papyri, which are described as "fragile like butterfly wings"....

The International Space Station has held up to 13 people in the past. Three of the astronauts who were up there this week returned to Earth...

The technology encrypts its data, so weapons inspectors wouldn't have access to military secrets about how a nuke was designed or...

Research has revealed the presence of trillions of microparticles from clothes, plastic wrap and possibly tires in the San Francisco Bay, according to a study released Wednesday. Microplastics measure less than 5 millimeters and are often invisible to the naked eye -- but the term microparticles is used when the chemical composition is not clear. Teams from the San Francisco Estuary Institute...

Lung biopsies from 17 people affected by a US outbreak of severe pulmonary disease linked to vaping have revealed the injuries are consistent with exposure to noxious chemical fumes, scientists reported Wednesday. The research, carried out by the Mayo Clinic, a medical nonprofit, and published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found no evidence of tissue injury caused by the accumulation of...

More frequent coastal storms are stressing...