NASA confirms the viral red “jellyfish lights” are natural red sprites. They are rare upper-atmosphere lightning flashes that ...

NASA is hosting a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 5, to announce scientists have solved a 35-year-old mystery. The press conference is in NASA’s auditorium, 300 E Street S.W., ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken a new and much clearer look at a confusing feature hidden deep under the ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

NASA's newest space telescope has launched into orbit on a mission to unlock some of the deepest mysteries of our universe. Late Tuesday evening, the southern California coastline was lit up by the ...

Mark Matney’s fresh hypothesis suggests that the Star of Bethlehem may have been a bright comet that briefly appeared to ...

A NASA astronomer proposes a bright comet visible for over 70 days in 5BC as the Star of Bethlehem. This celestial event ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars spiders have arrived on Earth. But fear not, arachnophobes — these ...

A Nasa spacecraft that has been doing laps around Mars for more than a decade has gone silent – and no one knows why. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, or Maven, has been studying ...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. -- Surrounding our solar system is a natural and enigmatic barrier called the heliosphere — and a new mission is underway to help astronomers better understand it. A SpaceX Falcon ...

A diagram of left-handed and right-handed versions of the amino acid isovaline, found in the Murchison meteorite. The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a ...

NASA’s Mars InSight spacecraft, scheduled to launch on Saturday, is headed to one of the most boring places on the red planet. Its landing spot will be Elysium Planitia, an idyllically named expanse ...