Oceans on Europa, one of Jupiter’s 67 known moons, might have a lot in common with our own oceans, including a chemical balance capable of harboring life, according to a new study released by NASA on Tuesday.

An Australian scientist creates a device that pushes solar energy conversion efficiency to 34.5 percent, marking a new world record.

Superbugs will kill someone every three seconds by 2050 unless the world acts now, a hugely influential report says.

Stone tools and bones from a butchered mastodon, found at the bottom of a river in Florida, are shaking up the known history of humans in the region.

Nasa's Kepler telescope has discovered more than 100 Earth-sized planets orbiting alien stars.

El Niño and ongoing climate change have both contributed to the devastating Alberta wildfires according to experts.

Curiosity is a rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. Let’s take a closer look into the Martian land, more specifically its dunes.

An international team of scientists said Monday they had discovered a trio of Earth-like planets that are the best bet so far for finding life outside our solar system.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus may be even more dangerous than previously thought, scientists in Brazil say.

SpaceX plans to send an unmanned Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018, a first step in achieving founder Elon Musk’s goal to fly people to another planet.

Water molecules have been observed behaving unlike gas, liquid or solid states by scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, reports UPI.com.

Rocks on the surface of Mars have provided the best clue yet that the red planet once had an atmosphere rich in oxygen.

There’s no bursting this bubble. The folks at the Hubble Space Telescope have released magnificent images of a “gigantic cosmic soap bubble” to celebrate Hubble’s 26th anniversary in space.

A European Space Agency effort to try to detect gravitational waves in space is not only technically feasible but compelling, a new report finds.

In one of the most arid regions in the world a series of carefully constructed, spiralling holes form lines across the landscape. Known as puquios, their origin has been a puzzle – one that could only be solved from space.

The Cuban Missile Crisis pushed the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon and no footprint has yet been left on the Moon. Yet one of the more peculiar twists of the Cold War involved a physics lesson at a provincial grammar school.

A marine robot deployed in the waters of Scotland's Loch Ness finds the remains of a monster but it turns out to be a prop from a movie shot in 1970.

Scientists thought that they finally came to know the reasons behind the movement of North Pole.It's not terribly unusual for the rotational pole of a planet to shift, especially since the earth is not perfectly spherical. It tends to wobble a little as it spins on its axis, reports Business Insiders.

Astrophysicists outline what Planet Nine might be like - if indeed it exists.

Self-driving cars are more likely to hurt than help public safety because of unsolved technical issues, engineers and safety advocates told the government Friday, countering a push by innovators to speed government approval.