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A new kind of mosquito won't spread any form of the deadly disease.

European researchers are working on a system that can churn out breathable oxygen from simulated samples of moon dust.

Vintage tractors have become one of the hottest items at farm auctions it's a trend that should be spread far and wide.

For the first time, the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a roughly Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of its host star, the zone of orbital distances where liquid water could be stable on a world's surface.

NASA has a lot of high-tech hardware cruising around in space right now, but one of the space agency's pint-sized exoplanet hunters appears to have gone dark. In a post by NASA's Jet Pr...

Even a galaxy teeming with star-hopping alien civilizations should still harbor isolated, unvisited worlds—and Earth might be among them

"For a long time, I assumed there was something wrong with the data interpretation," said astrophysicist Duane Pontius, who developed a theoretical model that played a role in the discovery of geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. "It's

A UFO expert claimed that a video captured by NASA showed a UFO flying near Russia's Soyuz capsule as it was docking at the International Space Station (ISS). According to the expert, the UFO may have been observing the space station to study the acti

It's a supergiant star in the final stage of its life, and it just dimmed by an enormous amount. What's going on?

Farmers could soon be growing tomatoes bunched like grapes in a storage unit, on the roof of a skyscraper, or even in space. That's if a clutch of new gene-edited crops prove as fruitful as the first batch.

'It was going from like 50,000 feet to 100 feet in like seconds, which is not possible'

The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Characterising Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) will study its targets in front of their host stars just like other exoplanet-hunting telescopes. So, what makes it different from the others?CHEOPS

The CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite was successfully launched by a Soyuz rocket, which blasted-off from the Russian Soyuz Guiana Space Center in French Guiana at 3:54 a.m. ET.

The capsule may land Sunday (Dec. 22), six days earlier than planned.

Scientists have discovered remnants of the world's oldest fossil forest in a sandstone quarry in Cairo, New York.

The recovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica looks likely to be delayed at least two years by the illegal production of an ozone-destroying gas in China

Scientists compare old views of the sky to what we see today and found that at least 100 stars appear to have vanished, or were perhaps covered up.

Just over 66 million years ago, Earth's fate changed dramatically with the arrival of a massive asteroid that slammed into what is the present-day Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. It was a devast...

Two years ago Sunday, the New York Times broke the stunning story of a secret Pentagon program to study unidentified flying objects. That story led me to delve into this strange world. I've learned some interesting stuff about UFOs (

The European Space Agency is about to launch a mission to study known exoplanets in greater detail, giving us a better glimpse of the potential for extraterrestrial worlds to host life.