The massive tax and immigration bill moving through Congress would transfer the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian ...

Sealed in a pottery vessel for over 4,500 years, the skeleton of an ancient Egyptian craftsman has now yielded the first ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4, 1957. As ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is working to build synthetic human DNA but who is asking how this science will impact ...

Michelle Marder, a University of Rhode Island Ph.D. student originally from Lynnfield, is one of two students, with Kate Remy, to be awarded with a graduate fellowship from the NASA Rhode Island Space ...

NASA was to supply some critical technologies for the mission, which Europe may not be able to readily replace.

Celestis, which recently conducted a mission from California, will send cremated remains or human DNA to outer space for ...

Celestis says it's the 1st company to offer space burials. Some remains, from "Star Trek" actors to JFK, have flown to orbit ...

The cover of the Golden Record shows a map of pulsars, for aliens to know where we sent this probe from, as well as how to ...