Darrell Miklos ventures into the Bahamas in this Cooper's Treasure Season 2 premiere exclusive clip. Meet the new equipment used to find the wrecks.

Mars may be known as the Red Planet, but it's a blue dune image NASA has released that's got everyone talking.

NASA's Deep Space Network has not heard a peep from Opportunity, a Mars rover, since the robot fell silent June 10, drained of power in a dust storm that has ...

"I want to thank the Air Force for certifying Falcon Heavy."

SpaceX has won its first contract to launch a classified military satellite on its Falcon Heavy rocket, beating out rival United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of ...

The US Air Force handed a launch contract to SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, marking another win for Elon Musk's rocket venture.

Falcon Heavy in New York City. Delta IV Heavy upright, gazing over the Taj Mahal. A Soyuz rocket quietly hovering near the crest line of Niagara Falls.

A new study validates Einstein's theory of general relativity in a distant galaxy for the first time.

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the ...

June 21 (UPI) -- The theory of general relativity states that objects and their gravitational pull distort the spacetime around them. The phenomenon explains the ...

It 's called the "National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan." This plan outlines the steps NASA, the White House, and the Federal ...

NASA's latest plan to protect Earth from asteroids involves early detection, preparedness drills and ... maybe nukes.

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are small solar system bodies whose orbits sometimes bring them close to the Earth, potentially threatening a collision. NEOs are ...

The U.S. launches a new effort to better catalog Earth killers. But the big question is what to do if we find one headed our way.

BERLIN — NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps has spoken for the first time about her unexpected removal from an assignment to go to space this year.

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps addressed the decision to pull her from her historic mission in January.

Jeanette Epps still does not know why she was booted in January from this month's International Space Station flight, where she would have made history as the ...

Scientists have successfully recovered images from some of the earliest daguerreotypes, the silver plates used for one of the earliest forms of photography.

The Tyrannosaurus rex could never have kissed like modern humans – because the fearsome beast couldn't stick out its tongue. Like alligators, most dinosaurs ...

Reconstructions of dinosaurs at theme parks and museums often show their tongues waving -- a feature that is completely incorrect. According to new research, ...

The tyrannosaurus rex couldn't stick out its tongue, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Blue Origin Senior Vice President Rob Meyerson said 'we plan to start flying our first test passengers soon.' and will start selling tickets in 2019, although the firm ...

If you want to go to space, Jeff Bezos might have a golden ticket for you coming very soon. The Amazon mogul's private space company Blue Origin has ...

The “area of destruction” that a 1908 Tunguska event would cause NYC. The report states such an impact could lead to millions of casualties in the city. Graphic: ...

NASA has updated its plans to deflect potentially hazardous Earth-bound asteroids – and none of them involve Bruce Willis.

NASA has released a new report via the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on its plans to build its asteroid detection and deflection technology ...

The human race has had a good run. We made a lot of mistakes, but we also invented the taco. Now it seems our time is coming to an end, at least if an asteroid ...

The ground under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is rising.

After last week's disturbing news that ice melt in Antarctica has tripled in the last five years, another study offers some surprising good news for the South Pole ...

The earth is rising in one part of Antarctica at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, as ice rapidly disappears and weight is lifted off the bedrock, a new ...

An international team of researchers has found that the bedrock below the remote West Antarctic Ice Sheet is rising much more rapidly than previously thought, ...

Because even NASA astronauts have a fear of ending up stranded in that alien expanse of darkness, they need a navigation tool that will help them follow the ...

Astronauts Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel spoke with the students through a live stream.

The universe's missing baryons (its last bits of hidden, "ordinary" matter) have been found, and they're floating between the stars in the form of superhot oxygen.

Astronomers have solved the so-called "missing baryon problem," locating the last reservoir of missing ordinary matter.

After a 20-year-long experiment, a team of international scientists detects the last of the missing intergalactic material predicted to be created by the Big Bang.

Scientists have managed to find the remaining 30 percent of the universe's missing baryons. A new paper published yesterday in the journal Nature announced ...

ESA guided Rosetta to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Sept. 30 last year, ending its 12-year mission.

The European Space Agency has released a complete archive of imagery and data from the historic Rosetta mission, allowing armchair astronauts to relive the ...

Marine biologist Joshua Stewart was scuba diving in the Gulf of Mexico when he spotted a baby manta ray—an unexpected find, given that juveniles are ...

When scientists at the University of California in San Diego noticed a large number of baby manta ray sightings at Flower Garden Banks National Marine ...

Researchers say this is the first reliable evidence that insects can use Earth's magnetic field for navigation.

Bogong moths are the first insects found to use Earth's magnetic field to navigate long distances, during their epic migrations across Australia.

Each spring, millions of nocturnal Bogong moths hatch across breeding grounds throughout southeastern Australia before flying over 1000 kilometers through ...

BOGONG moths are not as glamorous as monarch butterflies. Their name means “brown” in Dhudhuroa, a now-extinct language once spoken in eastern ...

June 22 (UPI) -- In northwest Greenland, a pair of glaciers, Tracy and Heilprin, flow side-by-side into Inglefield Gulf, and yet, they're melting at dramatically ...

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev caught video of a satellite flying by the International Space Station (ISS). Artemyev's 25-second clip, posted on his social ...

Ordinary (baryonic) matter make up all physical objects in existence, from stars to the cores of black holes. But until now, scientists had only been able to locate ...

After a 20-year-long experiment, a team of international scientists detects the last of the missing intergalactic material predicted to be created by the Big Bang.

Ordinary, baryonic, matter exists in the vast spaces between galaxies as highly-ionized oxygen gas at temperatures of about 1 million degrees Celsius. To pin ...

The Universe is expanding, but different techniques can't agree on how fast. No matter what, something major has got to give.

Courtesy of Juan Carlos Muñoz-MateosThe Milky Way galaxy photographed through a crystal ball.Astronomer Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mateos took a photo of the ...

A Japanese spacecraft is closing in on the tiny asteroid Ryugu, where it will drop off landers and explosively take samples of dust to analyse back on Earth.