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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has bolstered space sector ambitions with the appointment of Virgin Galactic's Chief Operating Officer as the new head of the Australian Space Agency. Perth native Enrico ...

More than a century after it was dispatched via carrier pigeon, a secret military message has been found ...

A stunning ocular photoshoot has been shared on social media featuring an indigenous Indonesian island tribe full of people ...

The largest amount of astronomical chemical data ever collected on the Milky Way will soon provide answers about ...

Something in space has been releasing fleeting blasts of radio waves, and scientists have finally unraveled this decade-old ...

WASHINGTON/SEATTLE—President Donald Trump's differences with rival presidential candidate Joe Biden extend far beyond planet earth. President Trump's plans ...

It's a scientific fact. Just like some people who lack the means to get from place to place ...

This is Mother Nature's version of synchronized swimming. Australian photographer Jim Picôt submitted an awe-inspiring photo of aquatic ...

Iceland has a geological landscape quite unlike anywhere else on the planet. Shaped by the relentless forces of ...

EMBDEN, Maine—A man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of ...

U.S. space agency NASA confirmed Monday that water exists on the sunny side of the Moon, albeit in ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. probe that collected a sample from an asteroid earlier this week retrieved so much material that ...

After nearly being wiped out from illegal killing, the return of the white-tailed eagle to England has made ...

MOSCOW—A trio of space travelers safely returned to Earth on Thursday after a six-month mission on the International ...

The depiction of what appears to be a reclining feline has been discovered carved into the side of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A NASA spacecraft descended to an asteroid Tuesday and, dodging boulders the size of buildings, momentarily ...

Canada’s telecommunications regulator has given Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) a licence allowing the company to ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) Oct. 13 to formally establish an interagency council for the ...

STOCKHOLM—Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for developing a way of editing genes likened to ...

STOCKHOLM—Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes, the ...

STOCKHOLM—Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton jointly won the Nobel Prize ...

So far, the year 2020 has been unusual to say the least. That 2020 will welcome 13 full ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A network of salty ponds may be gurgling beneath Mars’ South Pole alongside a large underground ...

TORONTO—A shadowy group of cyber criminals that attacked a prominent nursing organization and Canadian Tire store has successfully ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the breathtaking spectacle of "veil-like" ribbons ripping through space at incredible speeds—the ...

At first, it looks like nothing more than a dry crumpled leaf, but on closer inspection, the unmistakable ...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has urged the Department of Justice to investigate potential Chinese and Russian efforts to ...