Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

A NASA mission is set to launch twin spacecraft on a journey to Mars. The robotic orbiters could lift off atop Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket as soon as Sunday.

A team of scientists is employing a technique used to detect invasive species to search for troops lost at sea.

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just flew by the sun. Next, the object will fly by Earth in December.

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of previously unknown routes.

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her death.

Six species of North American bats glow under ultraviolet lighting, according to a new study. Researchers don’t know why certain mammals exhibit this odd trait.

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, according to a new study.

The search for a famed polar exploration shipwreck led researchers to discover geometric patterns created by fish on the Antarctic seafloor.