Science

NASA's updated plans to decommission the ISS by early 2031 involves a controlled deorbit above the remotest part of the Pacific Ocean.

Evidence from the Ohio River Valley suggests that Earth had a near-miss encounter with a comet about 1,600 years ago, and it still caused considerable devastation.

A new proposal for "information batteries" could go a long way in dealing with renewable energy's intermittency problem, which might help speed up adoption.

Scientists have studied the atmosphere on an extremely hot exoplanet and found layers of iron, chromium, and titanium oxide gases, among other vaporized metals.

A particularly aggressive brown bear in Sweden woke up from hibernation and went on an absolute tear, killing 38 reindeer calves one month and 18 moose calves the month after that.

The upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket is on track to hit the Moon on March 4, but at least this space junk collision might turn out to be helpful to scientists.

Researchers at one of the US's most important labs say they created burning plasma that briefly sustained itself by its own fusion reactions, a key step to useable fusion energy.

When Hubble launched in 1990, mission managers missed a defect in the primary mirror that threated the entire project. NASA vowed to not repeat that mistake with Webb.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University trained a robot to expertly perform laparoscopic surgeries on its own

Observatories like the multi-billion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope take decades to develop and deploy. Now that Webb's in place, here are the "eyes in the sky" coming up next.