A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law banning the teaching of evolution.

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons are on display.

Flash floods last week in Texas caused the Guadalupe River to rise dramatically, reaching three stories high in just two hours.

The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying that a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in Mexico than previously reported.

The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed a new leader at the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Trump administration is dropping plans to allow continued use of the last type of asbestos legally allowed in U.S. manufacturing after an outcry from asbestos opponents.

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech company known for its grand and controversial plans to bring back lost species.

Residents are wearing masks to protect themselves from thick volcanic ash that is blanketing several Indonesian villages as rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted for a second straight day.

Submerged in about 40 meters of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides and generate electricity.

Indonesia’s rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki has erupted twice and sent clouds of searing gas miles into the sky while tons of ash fell on villages and flights were cancelled.

Congressional passage of a massive bill cuts billions of dollars in spending across many areas including clean energy.

The Environmental Protection Agency has placed on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a so-called “declaration of dissent” against the federal agency's policies.

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard.

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system.

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

Iran is assessing the damage and lashing out over the American and Israeli airstrikes that damaged its nuclear sites.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is delaying by one month the planned cutoff of satellite data that helps forecasters track hurricanes.

The Trump administration has intensified its battle with Harvard University.

A group of Environmental Protection Agency employees has published a declaration of dissent to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over the agency's leadership and policies.

Japan has successfully launched a climate monitoring satellite using its H-2A rocket.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a mysterious object streak across the sky.

Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites.

Ticks can be active in any season and experts say it’s important to check for and remove the bloodsuckers as quickly as possible.

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada.

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The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary have arrived at the International Space Station, ferried there by SpaceX on a private flight.

A Harvard University researcher accused of smuggling clawed frog embryos into the United States is facing additional charges.

India, Poland and Hungary are back in human spaceflight.

It's often said music is the universal language of humanity.

Israel’s tally of war damage it has wrought on Iran includes the targeted killings of at least 14 nuclear scientists and experts.

A Japanese company says a laser navigating tool doomed its lunar lander, causing it to crash into the moon.

An intense and nearly historic weather pattern is cooking much of America in a dangerous heat dome this week with triple-digit heat that hasn’t been seen in some places in more than a decade.

The largest digital camera ever built has released its first shots of the universe.

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander.

U.K. lawmakers have backed a bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives in a historic vote in Parliament that takes it a step nearer to becoming law.

Summer gets its official start in the Northern Hemisphere with the arrival of the summer solstice.

The United States has joined Israel in its attacks on Iran’s nuclear program.

For years, Israel has assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists, hoping to choke progress on Iran’s nuclear program by striking at the brains behind it.

Attorneys argued over whether a Harvard University researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos brought “biological materials” into the U.S. Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist conducting cancer research for Harvard Medical School, appeared in Massachusetts federal court Wednesday for a probable cause hearing, where government and defense attorneys argued over whether she brought “biological materials” into the U.S. She was returning from a vacation from France in February when she was...

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as part of an effort to keep a flesh-eating parasite from infesting American cattle.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

A new study finds an Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass.

Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors.

The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency told senators that Chinese swimmers would have had to ingest around 11 pounds, or five kilograms of food to test for the amounts of the performance enhancer that resulted in the much-debated positive drug tests from 2021 that were later disregarded.

Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki has erupted with giant ash and smoke plumes again after forcing evacuations of villages and flight cancelations, including to and from the resort island of Bali.

Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia has erupted, spewing towering columns of hot ash.

A federal judge says it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health.

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

A chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary's first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space Station.

New research says long-billed curlews listen to alarm barks from prairie dog colonies to protect themselves from predators.

A team of about 60 researchers are spending six weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas.

A new study documents the discovery of over 100 ribbon worm species off the coast of Oman, most of which are new to science. With gruesome methods of devouring their prey, ribbon worms can take down other worms, clams, crabs, amphipods and even fish.

Satellite photos show emperor penguins in one region of Antarctica declined 22% in the past 15 years.

The red fox is such a fixture of life in London that it has its own ambulance service.

A Chinese scientist has been arrested while arriving in the U.S. in Detroit.

A bottlenose dolphin at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom.

Elon Musk is dialing back his threat to decommission a capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station for NASA.

Western nations are planning to table a resolution at an IAEA meeting that will find Iran in non-compliance with its so-called safeguards obligations for the first time in 20 years, a senior western diplomat said.

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a reduction in poaching of the endangered species.

It's kitten season in warm-weather areas and animal shelters need all the help they can get.

Former astronaut and Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau has died.

A private lunar lander from Japan has crashed into the moon.

An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital.

Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer.

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Two scientists from China have been charged in Michigan in what the FBI says was an effort to bring a toxic fungus to the U.S. Investigators say the pathogen can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice and sicken livestock and people.

Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment show a tiny particle continues to act strangely -- but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them.

Mount Etna has again captivated the world with a spectacular show.

A new report says that a record 38 million metric tons of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, with more expected this month.

Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets.

Space weather forecasters say northern lights may be visible in parts of the northern United States following weekend solar storms.

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all.

Sicily’s Mount Etna has put on a fiery show, sending a cloud of smoke and ash miles into the air, but officials said the activity posed no danger to the population.

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor.

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz has finally made it into space, nearly a half-century after missing a ride on NASA's Voyagers.

President Donald Trump says he's withdrawing the nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, an associate of Trump adviser Elon Musk, to lead NASA.

The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding an accident investigation into the out-of-control Starship flight by SpaceX.

Scientists say 4 billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025.

A new supercomputer named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will help power artificial intelligence technology and scientific discoveries from a perch in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley, federal officials said Thursday.

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future.

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America.

A federal judge in Vermont has granted a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher release from immigration custody as she deals with a criminal charge of smuggling frog embryos into the U.S. Colleagues and academics testified Wednesday on Kseniia Petrova’s behalf, saying she is doing valuable research in pursuing cures for cancer.

A new variant of COVID-19 is circulating in parts of the world and may be driving an increase in cases in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western Pacific regions.

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy.

SpaceX has launched its Starship mega rocket again after back-to-back explosions.

Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

Texas has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in decades.

Japan plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima prefecture on flower beds outside Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s office.

Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone.

As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the U.S. lost their jobs or grants.

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

An unusual May nor’easter is pulling away from New England after soaking the region and setting some record cold temperatures.

The efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students have struck at the core of the Ivy League school’s identity and unsettled current and prospective students around the world.