Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...

To our immune system, naked RNA is a sign of a viral or bacterial invasion and must be attacked. But our own cells also have ...

It's August, which means Hot Science Summer is two-thirds over. This week, NASA released an exceptionally pretty photo of ...

Our ability to predict extreme weather from thunderstorms, like the recent catastrophic flash floods in Texas, is unsettlingly poor, even in the hours leading up to the event. Improvements in ...

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a ...

New York is waging a war on multiple fronts to combat the near ubiquitous rats that plague city streets and the subways, ...

If Earthlings are ever going to colonize Mars, they won't be able to do so on an empty stomach—and Temidayo Oniosun thinks a ...

After nearly five months onboard the International Space Station, an international crew of five astronauts began their descent back down to Earth on a SpaceX capsule Friday.

In the wake of a wildfire, there's often an assumption that burned landscapes will be more susceptible to landslides. But new ...

A new study led by Dr. Duo Jia from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

In a study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, an international team of astronomers has uncovered for the first time the ...

How can quantum technologies be developed responsibly? In the journal Science, researchers from the Technical University of ...