Carbondale, Illinois Prepares to Broadcast 2017 Solar Eclipse Nationally

The millionaires leading mankind’s march to space have a few things in common – in particular, starry-eyed visions of sending humans to the final frontier and galaxy-size bank accounts to launch their ideas into orbit.

SpaceX test fires its Falcon 9 rocket on May 28 ahead of a planned June 1, 2017 Dragon cargo ship launch for NASA from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The Ancient Egyptians were famously fantastic at preserving their dead. But while their mummification methods helped protect soft tissues like skin from the ravages of time, the dry, hot climes that kept the deceased so pristine didn’t do their genetic …

Scientists have discovered a faceless fish during a voyage to one of the deepest parts of the ocean ever visited—Australia’s eastern abyss.

Spectacular new images captured by NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft show fluffy-looking white clouds casting their comparably tiny shadows on the giant planet’s monstrous, multicolored cloud decks.

Image data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus may have tipped over, reorienting itself so that terrain closer to its original equator was relocated to the poles.