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It took a year, but the Jared Isaacman era at NASA finally started. Sworn in Dec. 17, the new administrator spoke at a NASA town hall the next day to take questions about his plans for the agency.

Teachers who attended ‘compulsory’ creationist conference run by US-based fundamentalist group told radiometric dating techniques were flawed ...

It was quite a leap. Conspiracy theorists are being brought back down to Earth after NASA scientists debunked a wild claim ...

UFO whistleblowers claim Earth is a cosmic farm where higher beings harvest human emotional energy, a concept rooted in ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

At the request of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, the National Academies will convene an ad hoc committee to examine various issues and lessons learned in the implementation of the Instrument and ...

In an interview with Carbon Brief, Santer says the Trump administration is “engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science” ...

After the 6.7-magnitude Northridge Earthquake rattled Southern California, scientists realized just how much preparedness can save lives.

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Cardiff astronomers say they don't yet know where iron bar detected inside the Ring Nebula came from.

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...