Join Tom Bassam for updates as the riders make their way to Chalon-sur-Saône in the penultimate sprint stage ...

As part of plans to establish a lunar base, the space agency may send to the moon a spare test version of the rover — as well as a soccer ball. By Kenneth Chang NASA has a spare Mars rover that it ...

Our editorial staff picks the best songs from a year that's starting to be swarmed with big hits by big artists. The turnover at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 this year has really been something to ...

Before June comes to a close, the red planet (Mars) will cruise past the compact cluster of blue-white stars tucked inside the constellation of Taurus Alan Dyer/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via ...

On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone — popular in jewellery since the Bronze Age and valued highly by ancient Egyptians. Our team has now discovered a new rock type ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

What began as a normal day at an amusement park quickly turned into a terrifying emergency. Witnesses watched as a ride suffered a catastrophic failure high above the ground. Panic spread through the ...

Relativity Space — a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit — might just beat SpaceX to Mars. On Tuesday, NASA said it hired ...

It was America’s bicentennial, July 4, 1976, and NASA was hoping not to see fireworks. After a 10-month traverse through space, the Viking 1 lander was ready to become the first spacecraft to operate ...

The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned. By Katrina Miller On Wednesday, NASA announced the end of a more than ...

NASA has officially lost a decade-old Mars orbiter that performed vital scientific and communications work at the Red Planet. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, which launched ...

What Happens to the Human Body on a Mars Mission? (It's Terrifying) Why is a trip to Mars a guaranteed one-way ticket? It’s not about a lack of rocket fuel, budget, or engineering limitations. The ...