Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you ...

The Polaris Dawn crew returned to Earth aboard SpaceX‘s Dragon spacecraft on Sunday, marking the end of a 5-day mission where ...

The SpaceX Dragon capsule made a water landing Sunday in Florida, bringing to an end the historic commercial Polaris Dawn ...

A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore shared their relief after the Boeing Starliner spacecraft safely landed in ...

MOSCOW — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday, a little more than three hours after its launch.

Weird lighting and long shadows are among the out-of-this-world phenomena NASA astronauts will experience at the Moon's south ...

The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft has confirmed that Earth is, indeed, habitable. So, we can all breathe a sigh of ...

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, used by NASA in June to launch two astronauts to the International Space Station, has returned ...

According to the National UFO Reporting Center, there have been more than 149,000 UFO sightings around the world (and ...

Without this geodynamo, NASA says, Earth’s biosphere would not exist as it does today because life would be exposed to damaging levels of radiation from the sun and space. That’s why ...