SpaceX has delivered a new crew to the International Space Station in just 15 hours.

The National Science Foundation can continue to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars from researchers in several states until litigation aimed at restoring it plays out.

Lindsey and Tim Pierce have welcomed a baby boy using a 30-year-old embryo.

Four astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station after being sidelined by Boeing's Starliner trouble and other issues.

Russia’s space chief has visited the United States to discuss cooperation between Moscow and Washington on the International Space Station and lunar research with NASA’s acting chief, the first such face-to-face meeting in more than seven years.

Utility workers in Peru's capital have discovered two pre-Incan tombs while expanding underground gas networks.

SpaceX plans to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station at 11:43 a.m. on Friday.

More fireflies than usual are lighting up summer evenings in the U.S. Northeast.

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit Russia’s Far East, flooding a fishing port with waves from a tsunami, cutting power to a few areas and sending some panicked residents to flee buildings but causing only a few injuries.

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches.

NASA and India have paired up to launch an Earth-mapping satellite capable of tracking the slightest changes in land and ice.

The first Australian-made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country's soil has crashed after 14 seconds of flight.

A 12-year-old boy has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake over the July Fourth weekend.

Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water.

People with experimental brain implants often turn to the treatment as a last resort, hoping to improve their health when everything else has failed.

A scientific journal has retracted a controversial study that hinted at the possibility of a bizarre life form.

It's almost time to catch summer's double meteor showers.

A Russian rocket has sent an Iranian communications satellite into orbit, highlighting strong ties between the two countries.

President Donald Trump’s plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a building boom that was already expected to strain the nation’s ability to power it.

Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt and her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, have long insisted that the scientific advancements they fund be shared widely and for the planet's protection.

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest-known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years.

No one had spotted the world’s smallest known snake for nearly two decades.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says money, not just science, makes the case for curbing climate change.

Archaeologists have identified a 250-year-old shipwreck uncovered on a remote Scottish beach.

Italy’s highest court has ruled that a lawsuit brought by climate activists against Italian energy giant Eni and its government shareholders can go ahead.

As global temperatures rise under climate change, the bees responsible for pollinating many crops are under increasing stress and scientists are trying to understand how they are affected.

Harvard University has appeared in federal court, challenging $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” kicks off with a unique twist this year: “Dancing with Sharks.”.

Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years.

For 37 years in a searing California desert, runners from across the globe have embarked on a 135-mile race through one of the hottest places on Earth.

Researchers report that eight healthy babies were born with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing rare diseases to their children.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star.

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.

A volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland has once again forced the evacuation of local residents and tourists at the internationally known Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.

Some dolphins in Australia use sponges on their noses to hunt fish, a skill passed down through generations.

MP Materials, the operator of the only rare earths mine in the United States, has signed a $500 million deal with Apple.

The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary are back on Earth.

The International Space Station's first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary are headed back to Earth.

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

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.