Police have arrested a total of six people in connection with a deadly explosion of illegal fireworks in a Honolulu ...

Festival ushers in the Year of the Snake, China is flooded with auspicious representations of the hissing, scaly reptile, ...

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Faithfull was a beautiful pop star at the height of the ’60s rock era, known across the world for her hits (notably the classic ballad “As Tears Go By”) and her boyfriend, Rolling Stone Mick Jagger. A ...

Traders are positioning for excessive volatility in the Canadian dollar, in the hours before President Donald Trump is ...

Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958 ...

NASA astronaut Suni Williams set a female spacewalk record after venturing outside the International Space Station with ...

Christiane Amanpour speaks to the directors Peter Ettedgui and Ian Bonhôte about their critically acclaimed documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story”.

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

ESA has just signed a landmark contract with Italy’s Thales Alenia Space to build this lander dubbed Argonaut Lunar Descent Element.