Long before the Curiosity rover set robotic wheels on Mars, two landers touched down. NASA's Viking Project, as well as capturing the first-ever images from the Martian surface, saw the landers ...

Planting trees has long been touted as a major tool in the fight against climate change. And on the surface, that makes a lot of sense. After all, there’s a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, ...

Sampler, Mei Semones, Danny Tenaglia, Fridays on Front Street, "Les Blancs," more great things to do this weekend ...

Pop Rocks, the iconic crackling candy, weren’t part of a sweet master plan they were a happy accident born from a failed ...

Luojia 3-01 is the world's first intelligent remote sensing satellite, equipped with various imaging modes including video, frame-pushing, and scan-pushing. It boasts submeter level multimode optical ...

Visitors walk though the jaw-some entry to Birch Aquarium for its “Shark Summer” pop-up science night. (Ashley Mackin-Solomon) Young Birch Aquarium guests go dancing with a shark mascot.

Researchers put on a "science fair for canceled grants" on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to highlight cuts to federal funding for science.

Summer vacation is a time for fun and play, but can also be a time for learning. Parents have the added benefit of teaching their children outside a classroom environment, taking the pressure off kids ...

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northeastern Canada is home to the oldest rocks on Earth (Jonathan O'Neil) ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except for one small chunk.