Signals from a spacecraft 3 billion miles away swept over Earth on Tuesday, confirming that the New Horizons probe survived its history-making flyby of Pluto.

NASA’s New Horizons probe zoomed past Pluto on Tuesday, marking the climax of a first-of-its-kind mission.

Air Force officials said the rocket “experienced an anomaly” 148 seconds into the flight.

After a delay, SpaceX launched its robotic cargo craft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, but failed to land its rocket on a floating platform.

Thanks to a newly revealed analysis of scrapings from a first-century tomb in East Jerusalem and a bone box attributed to “James, son of Joseph, brother of

A research team of scientist says hairs associated with “the Abominable Snowman” may have come from this type of Himalayan mammal.

Does a layer of ice that was once an ocean lie just beneath the surface? And did the dwarf planet ever harbor life? The answers are closer than ever.

The famous British physicist says he’s working on a theory of cosmic origins that “will be even more significant than the discovery of the Higgs boson.”

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket that successfully put a cargo capsule in orbit on Saturday, but its unprecedented attempt to land at sea ended with a crash.

After a suspense-packed, seven-hour descent, the European Space Agency’s Philae lander made an unprecedented touchdown on the surface of a comet Wednesday.