2016 marks 55 years of human spaceflight and two Russian space enthusiasts celebrated the event with a giant portrait of Yuri Gagarin stamped out in a snowy field south of Moscow.

Thawing permafrost - the layer of soil that stays frozen year-round - is melting. Engineers have worked around this issue in the past but their methods could stop working.

Cancer drugs are often derived from plants, many of which are endangered and make treatment methods hard to guarantee.

NASA just installed the first expandable structure on the International Space Station's Tranquility module.

The diminutive disk of Mercury spent about seven and a half hours crossing in front of the Sun. This event happens roughly thirteen times per century.

In an epic announcement, NASA revealed that its Kepler Spacecraft had discovered 1,284 exoplanets. That's the most exoplanets announced at one time!

A team of Swedish and Norwegian researchers have created a way to show parents what their newborn sees when it first looks at them.

In a spectacular discovery, a team of scientists came across a 600-mile long coral reef located at the mouth of the Amazon River, all hidden under muddy waters.

A solar powered plane completed a 2.5 day flight across the Pacific, traveling from Hawaii to California without fuel.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has just spotted a small moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf plane in the Kuiper Belt.

With images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Space Agency just released a 3D video of the colorful Bubble Nebula, a circular cloud of gas 8,000 light years from Earth.

Scientists discovered a supermassive black hole formed from three spiral galaxies colliding into one another around 1.8 billion light-years away from Earth.

Archaeologists in Taiwan have just unearthed a 5,000-year-old fossil of a mother cradling a child.

In a recent study nearly 600,000 healthy individuals were tested for genetic mutations that lead to severe childhood diseases but surprisingly, 13 participants tested positive but did not show signs of the associated disorders.

Scientists have identified three close exoplanets that could support life. The planets are a mere 40 light years away from Earth, orbiting a dim star.

Hyperloop One, a California-based company building a high speed transportation system, is one step closer to a full system test.