NASA has announced that Christina Koch will be the first woman on a lunar mission, and Victor Glover will be the first African American on such a voyage.
NASA is testing a spacecraft's ability to alter an asteroid's trajectory with sheer kinetic force, nudging it off course and potentially preventing a collision with Earth.
An instrument fitted to the space agency's Perseverance rover has converted carbon dioxide from the planet's atmosphere into oxygen for the first time.
NASA have unveiled the first video of its Mars rover, Perseverance, landing on the surface of the red planet, as well as audio of a light gust of wind.
Basic cellular activity in pigs’ brains has been restored hours after its death, by researchers at Yale University, which could lead to advanced human treatments for strokes.
Following unusually abundant winter rains and snowfall statewide, for the first time in 7 year California is officially drought free.
Los Angeles and many places across the US celebrated their first Indigenous Peoples' Day this year.
