Jeffrey Williams, commander of the International Space Station, has spent 521 days in orbit, breaking the previous American record set by astronaut Scott Kelly.
Exploration Vessel Nautilus is broadcasting live from the USS Independence, an aircraft carrier that was scuttled off the coast of San Francisco 65 years ago.
A Pacific coral reef thought to have died more than a decade ago now appears to be alive again. A victory for conservation policies?
The Bosnian pine, dubbed 'Adonis' by scientists, took root in 941 A.D. in Byzantine Greece.
NASA was able to reestablish contact with STEREO-B, a craft from the Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory mission, which went missing on October 1, 2014.
A recovered hedgehog is held in gloved hands before its release near Kecskemet, Hungary, on Wednesday. Some forty previously injured and rehabilitated animals belonging to the protected species were released into the wild as a result of the joint efforts of the Kecskemet Zoo and Kiskunsag National Park.
A chimpanzee may make a good teammate, according to new research.
The NASA-funded Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation is the latest in a series of 'Mars' missions designed to prepare astronauts for the harsh realities of prolonged space travel.
NASA PubSpace provides free online access to hundreds of papers on NASA-funded research projects. The new open-access policy carries important implications for both the agency and for academic research as a whole.
Like ecosystems, financial markets are complex evolving systems from which unexpected bubbles, crashes, and other surprising behaviors can emerge. Building resilient financial systems may require policymakers to take cues from biology.
A year from Sunday, those in the continental United States will be treated to a solar eclipse, whose path of totality stretches from Oregon to South Carolina.
The 5,300-year-old frozen European mummy wore an outfit composed almost entirely of animal skin, say researchers.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is set to launch from Cape Canaveral September 8, aimed at a rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu in 2018.
A team of Stanford researchers have created a program that uses only publicly available satellite imagery to cheaply and efficiently find poverty indicators. The program could be a cheap and accurate new method of poverty data collection.
An ancient Bosnian pine, nicknamed Adonis by researchers, has been dated to about 1,075 years old, making it the oldest known tree living in Europe.
Intense rainfall is causing widespread flooding in parts of Louisiana, and new measurements from a NASA satellite illustrate just how much precipitation has accumulated in this region.