The most expensive and precise mirror ever built for a NASA space telescope just got its final closeup. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight...
A faint, disorganized galaxy is drifting through space 11 million light years from Earth, and the Hubble Space Telescope has just captured its image...
Saturn was never changing its spin. For decades, measurements made the planet look like it was speeding up and slowing down, a physical impossibility...
A spiral galaxy 47 million light years away is being pulled, slowly and inexorably, toward the center of a massive cluster of galaxies. NASA's Hubble...
Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth at a site that was once a top secret nuclear missile testing ground. The Shenzhou 18 crew touched...
A Chinese official was caught on camera crying about a devastating flood in his hometown, but viewers could not stop staring at the gold earrings...
Three rare otter pups took their first swim in the middle of a heatwave in England, drawing crowds to a wildlife park where temperatures pushed past...
The world's biggest permafrost crater is expanding at a rate of 30 meters every year. Located in Siberia, Russia, the Batagaika Crater now stretches...
A buffalo in Bangladesh escaped the slaughter this Eid thanks to its name: Donald Trump. The animal, a large male buffalo, had been marked for...
The Cerne Abbas Giant, the ancient chalk figure carved into a hillside in Dorset, England, is getting its first major restoration in living memory...
Botswana has become the first country in the world to reach Gold Tier status for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The milestone...
Chinese scientists are growing giant wheat-rye hybrids in the Gobi Desert, and the plants are nearly twice the size of normal wheat. The new crop...
A pregnant woman in China voluntarily gave up her turn in a surgery room so that another pregnant woman who was bleeding heavily could be treated...
NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is about to do something no civilian jet has done before: fly faster than sound without rattling the ground below...