U.S. astronaut Gene Cernan, who as the commander of the final Apollo lunar landing mission in 1972 became known as the “last man on the moon,” died on Monday (Jan. 16).
(CNN) A female zebra shark in an Australian aquarium has astounded scientists by producing live offspring asexually, three years after being separated from her long-term mate.
A high-telescope program that could have pinpointed the locations of thousands of asteroids orbiting near the Earth was recently rejected by NASA, the third time the mission has been shot down.
It was “one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations” in FBI history – and to this day remains the only unsolved skyjacking in the United States.
A small research rocket launched from Japan fell into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday after attempting to send a student-built CubeSat into orbit, Japanese officials said.
A horse mandible, the oldest in the samples and displaying marks from a stone tool believed to have been used to remove the tongue, was radiocarbon-dated and found to be from 24,000 years ago.
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Scientists allege in a recent study that menopause, when females no longer produce eggs to bear children, was an evolutionary development that helps end conflict between mothers and daughters.
This video proves it’s alive. Scientists have known since 2015 that the ruby seadragon existed, based on DNA analysis of 100-year-old museum specimens, but it’s never been seen (much less caught on video) until now.
SpaceX is back in business. After being grounded from flight operations, following the spectacular Sept. 1 explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket while it was being refueled at its launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Elon Musk company made its …
Beijing is setting up a pollution police force that will have the power to detain the worst culprits. Experts warn, however, that the chief culprit is the national government itself, conflicted in its environmental management by its struggles to …
A new video footage from an astronaut’s camera supposedly captured mysterious lights. The unidentified lights were spotted near the ISS and were recorded by a GoPro camera.
GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND – JANUARY 11: A so-called wolf moon rises over Glastonbury Tor on January 11, 2017 in Somerset, England. In some parts of the world, the January full moon is nicknamed the wolf moon, which dates back to the days when …
Gilead Sciences logo California State Teachers Retirement System increased its stake in Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) by 0.8% during the third quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
CAPE CANAVERAL – Culminating years of construction and testing, a $1.2 billion satellite designed to spot and track enemy missiles threatening the United States homeland, its deployed military forces abroad or allied nations will ascend to a …
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet floated into space on his first-ever spacewalk Friday, and helped install three new, refrigerator-sized lithium-ion batteries to upgrade the power system at the International Space Station.
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