Europe's plans to develop its "Argonaut" robotic moon lander are moving ahead with the announcement of an Italy-led consortium that will build a key element of the spacecraft.

December’s full cold supermoon is peaking this week as the anniversaries of two Apollo missions approach.

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life developed on Earth, scientists say.

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Ant colonies act as one "super-organism" which works to ensure the survival of all, according to a team of scientists.

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

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.

Dark matter obeys gravity after all — could that rule out a 5th fundamental force in the universe?

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

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

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

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

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD'

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11,000 pounds of cargo recently arrived at the International Space Station.

It all comes down to the difference in temperature between the North Pole and the equator.

The last supermoon of the year will shine soon in December skies. When a full moon is closer to Earth in its orbit, a so-called supermoon happens. The supermoon can be glimpsed in clear night skies without any special equipment.

Scientists used data from NASA's Perseverance rover to find tiny lightning bolts on Mars that could scour biosignatures off the world's surface

Scientists may have "heard" the first tantalizing evidence of primordial black holes formed directly from overly dense pockets of matter just after the Big Bang.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered puzzling ultraviolet radiation around young stars in a stellar nursery.

A newly discovered tectonic "regime" may explain why Earth has active plates while Venus remains stagnant.

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all.

Watch live as near-Earth asteroid Eros buzzes the Andromeda Galaxy on Nov. 30 (video)

The waxing gibbous moon will appear close to Saturn in the southeastern sky at sunset on Nov. 29 as Neptune lurks unseen nearby.

But being in this sweet spot doesn't automatically mean a planet is hospitable to life.

Intuitively, we know what time is, but try to explain it, and we end up tying our minds in knots.

The waxing gibbous moon will appear close to Saturn in the southeastern sky at sunset on Nov. 29 as Neptune lurks unseen nearby.

SpaceX will launch more than 100 different payloads today (Nov. 20) on the Transporter 15 rideshare mission.