Space Science

The administration revealed a fourth American citizen had been killed in drone strikes.

ELLENWOOD, Ga. (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747 on approach to Atlanta's airport lost parts from its right wing that landed on a woman's house.

A new photo shows a nebula located 6,500 light-years from Earth in unprecedented detail.

There's just one thing keeping space elevators from existence.

See amazing space photos taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Northern Chile.

LONDON (AP) — A brave scout leader who may have prevented further violence has emerged as an unlikely hero in the apparent terror attack that left one man dead on the streets of London.

So far, John Kerry has made little progress getting back to the negotiating table.

James Holmes is accused of spraying gunfire inside an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater.

PASADENA, Calif. - A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation. Follow-up studies by several telescopes on the ground and in space, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, tell a tale of two faraway galaxies intertwined and furiously making stars. Eventually, the duo will settle down to form one super-giant elliptical galaxy. [...]

The man, who police believe is 20-years-old, is the only suspect.