A federal health panel has endorsed an experimental cancer test that uses a blood sample to detect multiple forms of the disease.

There's excitement on the beaches of Southern California.

For years, scientists have explored ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere, including through direct air capture, changes to ocean chemistry so seawater can absorb more carbon and reforestation.

A new study has found that the T.

This demonstration shows how millions of years can break down boulders into dust!

A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979.

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye.

A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a baby girl from an embryo frozen for 22 years.

A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected.

The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August.

The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are leaving spaceflight behind.

Indonesian rescuers are searching for eight people who went missing at sea while heading the island of Anak Krakatau to report on a volcanic eruption.

Flights to and from Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta have resumed after ash from a volcanic eruption forced a two-day closure that halted nearly 3,000 flights.

Indonesia is maintaining closures at several airports and shifting schools to remote learning though the eruption of Anak Krakatau is easing.

Chimpanzees once used in hepatitis B vaccine experiments are getting health checks at their new home in Liberia.

A private spacecraft that was supposed to save NASA's sinking Swift Observatory has managed to come within nine miles of the doomed spacecraft and even snap pictures.

Two Mercury-bound spacecraft are in the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage.

Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died at 90.

This classic experiment is a delight!

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

Researchers are catching a wide range of sharks off New York’s Hamptons and outfitting them with small trackers as they seek to understand more about one of the world’s few confirmed great white shark nurseries.

NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off on a quest to find planets around other stars and explore the hidden universe.

Forecasters say Hurricane Karina has become a major hurricane in the Pacific but poses no immediate threat to land.

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year have received the nation's highest space honor.

A massive study shows what illnesses and injuries spike in emergency room visits during heat waves in Chicago.

Elon Musk’s space company plans to spend $100 billion to build a new spaceport in Louisiana to launch rockets.

A Chinese humanoid robot has set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing.

China has postponed its planned ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission.

Over the past 50 years, the Gibbon Conservation Center has become a globally recognized institution dedicated to the care and well-being of gibbons.

Federal officials have announced sharp water cuts for the next two years for three Western states that rely on the imperiled Colorado River.

The mission to save NASA's sinking space telescope has been called off.

Eclipses may be wondrous, but nothing beats seeing the northern and southern lights from space.

President Donald Trump has picked Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration.

A telescope has spotted the fastest known star in the Milky Way.

Floating tentacled predators pulse and swirl in hypnotic patterns in the dark museum space, lit primarily by images projected on walls and the light from the saltwater tanks.

A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket.

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates have declined again, with exemptions reaching a record high.

A small but growing body of research shows that GLP-1 drugs often used to treat obesity may also work for the hormonal disorder known as PMOS.

Time is a concept that varies across cultures and history.

Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth briefly plunged parts of the planet into darkness.

Sorry, North America.

The first and only person to break the sound barrier in a car has his eye on another speed record.

Astronomers say viewing conditions are promising for the Perseid meteor shower this year.

A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon's fresh crash scene.

Scientists are creating a new kind of vaccine that teaches the immune system to intercept a type of brewing colon cancer before it turns into a full-fledged tumor.

A new study calculates that human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada’s massive summer wildfires.

Guatemalan authorities say activity at the Fuego volcano is gradually decreasing after it began two days ago.

Scientists say they're certain that a SpaceX rocket has slammed into the moon as predicted.

Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet.

Scientists at a biotech company have used gene editing to create two hypoallergenic beagles that don't trigger allergies.

With parts of the globe aflame in wildfires, deadly heat waves parking over cities, record hot oceans and a strengthening super El Nino, it seems like we’re baking through the hottest year on record.

For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain with an even longer encore next summer.

A SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers last year.

Two new studies reveal climate change's fingerprints over extreme fire weather-triggering infernos in Spain and France.

New research says ancient mummy DNA provides the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the Americas.

While many teenagers took a break from learning this summer, dozens of San Antonio high schoolers spent their time studying in a professional-grade laboratory.

Experts say the world is experiencing two opposing fire trends because of human impact.

Scientists are alarmed by the British government's decision to cut funding for the Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory.

Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who generated both fascination and revulsion around the globe with his “Body Worlds” exhibits of preserved human corpses, has died.

SpaceX’s Starship rocket has blasted off on another test flight, this time carrying 20 of the most advanced Starlinks.

Federal health advisers are recommending broader access to controversial chemicals called peptides.

Rei Ami, known for her singing voice in “KPop Demon Hunters,” recently faced real sharks during a dive.

A two-armed space robot is on its way to give extra life to out-of-gas satellites thousands of miles up.

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake has shaken the Andes region of Peru, killing at least six people.

America's most daring, extraordinary feat, landing astronauts on the moon, remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone anywhere.

Wildfire smoke, which is increasing in the Northern Hemisphere as the climate warms, attacks nearly every system in the body.

SpaceX's next Starship test flight is off until at least next week after a last-second abort on the pad.

Astronomers have discovered a faint new world orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek.

A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world’s largest and most complete specimens has sold for a record $50.1 million at an auction.

An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer's disease in a markedly different way than current treatments — by lowering the brain's production of a protein called tau.

A distinguished American marine biologist was shot and killed by three men in the central Philippines at the weekend.

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries.

China has successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch, marking a breakthrough for its space program.

Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer who was the oldest woman to launch into space, has died.

A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

Neil, a 2,200-pound elephant seal, has returned to his birthplace on the Australian coast, causing quite a stir.

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem.

A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a Trump administration panel studying UFOs.

The largest digital camera ever built is beginning to capture images of unseen corners of the universe in finer detail.

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer.

For those trapped in rubble after an earthquake, survival depends on many factors, including weather and access to water and air.

NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.

Drop thousands of Argentina fans into Texas for the World Cup and the debate is inevitable.

A new study suggests humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways dating back 15 million years.

AI "world models" are the next frontier for computer scientists who see too many limitations in the AI language models behind popular chatbots.

A new kind of flu vaccine is moving a step closer to the U.S. market.

Tropical Storm Arthur is the first of the Atlantic season and threatens the southern United States with dangerous flash flooding.

Scientists have found evidence of the oldest known plague, dating back about 5,500 years ago — some 200 years earlier than previously thought.

African and Commonwealth nations have called for a swift implementation of a landmark treaty protecting the high seas.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has shaken central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least a resident, injuring dozens of people.

Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration.

Philippine officials say that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south and left 55 people dead with 31 others still missing.

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Japan has resumed operations.

New research shows that extreme floods in coastal areas are becoming more common as climate change causes sea levels to rise.

Scientists have unearthed marine communities thriving on a millions-year-old whale graveyard.

A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe has released its first major findings.

NASA has revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in eventually landing astronauts on the moon.

Following the recent rain in Bexar County, residents might notice large groups of flying insects — but what are these creatures?

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry.

Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died.