After the New Horizons probe captured historic close-up shots of the surface of Pluto this summer, NASA's far-reaching spacecraft is headed towards its next target.
Scientists have discovered decayed bones, flesh, skin and organs of dinosaurs that are millions of years old. Now, there is evidence of blood cells with protein intact.
Dust particles in the Mars atmosphere create the blue sunset. More than three years after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched Curiosity to Mars, the rover has photographed its first sunset, reports the Washington Post.
Recent medical scans of the mummified remains of a young girl touring as part of exhibit at called “Mummies of the World: The Exhibition," belong to a girl who lived more than 500 years ago in Peru.
The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft departed from an airstrip in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, early Monday morning for a five month long trip around the world.
The next time such a large asteroid will get close to Earth is asteroid 1999 AN10 in 2027. If you missed the asteroid that came within 745,000 miles of Earth on Monday morning at 8:19 a.
It may sound like something from a science fiction movie: tiny medical nanobots propelling through the body taking tissue samples, performing surgical repairs or delivering drugs. For the first time, however, researchers at the University of California, San Diego tested such devices on animals and successfully administered zinc-based, acid-powered, self-destructing micromotors inside living mice.
After analyzing the DNA of a 45,000-year-old human, scientists have found new clues about the first time that ancient humans interbred with Neanderthals, an extinct species of human who evolved outside of Africa.
The new Lego set is inspired by geophysicist Ellen Kooijman. A 7-year-old girl may be the reason for Lego's latest female scientist set. A few months ago, Charlotte Benjamin wrote a letter to the company.
Stephen Hawking thinks that his formula might be possible. World renowned British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has come up with a formula that could help Britain's team win the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament.
When the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil begins in São Paulo on Thursday, the kickoff of the Opening Ceremony will be something you've literally never seen before: A brain-controlled robotic bionic exoskeleton suit will enable a paraplegic Brazilian teen to get up from his wheelchair and make the ceremonial first kick of the tournament.
While the moon currently doesn't have a lot of amenities to offer, it at least has Wi-Fi. While the moon currently doesn't have a lot of amenities to offer, it at least has Wi-Fi.
A new study published in Trends in Molecular Medicine found that a class of environmental toxins known as gerontogens, which could accelerate the rate of aging.
President Barack Obama delivered a speech at a Wal-Mart in Mountain View, California, on Friday where he unveiled 300 measures that would expand the use of clean-energy sources that would create jobs and reduce dependence on foreign oil.
According to a new poll, Americans trust commonly accepted scientific beliefs about cancer and vaccines, but are less convinced about scientific concepts about climate change, evolution and the Big Bang theory.
Astronomers, with the help of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, have discovered a planet that closely resembles Earth's size and orbits a red dwarf star in the habitable zone about 493 light-years away.
