New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — To meet the rising threats in missile defense and the space domain, the U.S Army is now accepting applications for its newest military occupational specialty, or MOS.

The STS-51L mission clears the tower at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28, 1986. Credit: NASA / Courtesy Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter for ...

Why it matters: A controlled infection experiment aboard the International Space Station shows that in space, even microscopic life is governed by different physical rules. Understanding how microbes ...

Investment in space tech driven by defense-linked systems U.S. leads with $7.3 billion in space funding, driven by defense programs Potential SpaceX IPO seen as catalyst for SpaceTech investment ...

Surging demand for energy to power artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is reaching new heights as companies are pursuing plans to station data centers in space. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon ...

The molecular clock theory posits that genetic changes happen steadily and gradually, offering a reliable means for peering into the past and theorizing when complex life first emerged. However, there ...

NASA said Thursday that it will bring four astronauts aboard the International Space Station back to Earth more than a month earlier than planned because of a medical issue — the first such evacuation ...

This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The ...

The space station industry is starting to take off. For decades, if you wanted to send an astronaut or experiment into orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) was the only option. But now, as ...

Invasive aquatic species are transforming rivers, lakes, and coastal waters at an alarming rate. This video examines four invasive fish and one crustacean that have caused widespread ecological ...