An instrument package launched in May by the European Space Agency has provided one of the most detailed views yet of space up to 12 billion years back in time.

Team uses a high-speed camera to film the instant of touch down on surfaces at various inclinations.

NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.

Researchers have created a magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost "micromotors" for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells and miniature speakers.

Biologists long have marveled at the ability of some animals to re-grow lost body parts. Newts, for example, can lose a leg and grow a new one identical to the original. Zebrafish can re-grow fins.

A long forgotten fossil skull in the collections of the Natural History Museum in London has now provided crucial clues to the early stages of the lengthy evolutionary history of these fearsome predators.

In their quest to find solar systems analogous to ours, astronomers have determined how common our solar system is.

New Simulation Reveals Planet Migration Prevents Plunge Into Sun

The discovery of fossil footprints from early backboned land animals in Poland leads to the sensational conclusion that our ancestors left the water at least 18 million years earlier than previously thought.

Ancient Egyptian cosmetics: 'Magical' makeup may have been medicine for eye disease