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A rundown of some of the biggest spacecraft to smash into Earth beyond their operators' control.

October's full moon, called the Hunter's Moon, will rise tonight (Oct. 13), reaching its peak fullness at 5:08 p.m. ET.

A Colorado man says he and his girlfriend witnessed a bipedal creature they believe could be a Bigfoot. The man, whose name wasn’t provided by the BFRO, says they were hiking in Mayflower Basin when they came upon the two-legged figure on July 25, at about 1.45 p.m.. “I was sitting on a rock eating […]

What appears to be a dazzling meteor lit up the sky over northeast China on Friday (Oct. 11), appearing as a brilliant fireball in surveillance video of the event.

Don't wait until the movie. The rise of "Rise of Skywalker" began last week in comic books.

A new meteorite addition to the Field Museum's collection resembles a malodorous mud brick, but it holds important clues about the origins of life on Earth.

Boeing has set a new launch date for the first orbital flight of its new commercial crew vehicle that will soon begin ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

Several countries are launching claims to vast swathes of the Arctic seabed. But what does that mean for political and environmental stability in the region?

Many of them avoid the equal sign, hoping to promote a looser relationship of “equivalence” instead. It's been controversial.

Meet Bacillus cereus.

Microplastics are everywhere, but how worried should we be? Scientists are on a mission to find out more.

Touch is powerful.

The United Kingdom is set to make its own giant leap soon, with a very small rover.

A fast-moving visitor is approaching our cosmic neighborhood. Dubbed 2019 SX5, this near-Earth object is about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

When 'Oumuamua passed through our solar system in 2017, no one could figure out where the object came from. But astronomers think they've worked out how Comet 2I/Borisov got here.

The grim future of new TNT sci-fi series "Snowpiercer" began with climate change. Could our rapidly warming world undergo a global deep freeze?

A complex network of skull bones, ligaments and muscles allows a snake to swallow prey with bodies much larger than the sinuous predator's own head.

Don’t be a chump, study angular momentum(p).

Using 10 years of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the team of astronomers concluded that there is more gas coming into our galaxy than leaving it.

Hydrologic models that simulate and predict water flow are used to estimate how natural systems respond to different scenarios such as changes in climate, land use, and soil management. The output from these models can inform policy and regulatory decisions regarding water and land management practices.

Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered that powerful winds driven by supermassive black holes in the centers of dwarf galaxies have a significant impact on the evolution of these galaxies by suppressing star formation.

To slowly go where no human has gone before.

Technology for when society collapses.

And they can control it.

People are dying, and it's entirely preventable.