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Study suggests scientists were wrong about dark streaks...

Slope streaks once believed to be signs of water on Mars might really be signs o...

World's first successful tailor-made gene therapy saves...

Baby KJ Muldoon was born with a rare genetic condition that is often fatal, but ...

Peggy Whitson on her space legacy and commanding a new ...

From breaking records to breaking barriers, astronaut Peggy Whitson shares what ...

On the Edge: The people and polar bears of a warming ar...

Churchill, Manitoba, a small village on the Hudson Bay, is known as the polar be...

Ancient jawbone found in sea linked to mysterious human...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins t...

Scientists map part of a mouse's brain that's so comple...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the ...

Ancient altar found in jungle apparently used for child...

The discovery shows the cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and Teoti...

Scientists hope far-UVC light could help stop the next ...

The emerging technology offers an alternative to conventional UVC light, which i...

Dire wolf pups born 12,500 years after extinction, comp...

Colossal Biosciences said it used ancient DNA from the extinct species to create...

Rocket carrying NASA's Jonny Kim, 2 cosmonauts docks wi...

The craft carrying astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian cosmonauts docked with th...

Geomagnetic storms could bring northern lights show to ...

The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, are forecast tonight aft...

Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysteri...

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individual...

Monkeys are "best yodellers" in the world, study says

Primates possess special anatomical structures in their throats called vocal mem...

Space tourists complete first-ever flight around Earth'...

SpaceX's third all-civilian privately chartered flight was the first to carry a ...

NASA images show peanut-shaped asteroid during high-spe...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 mi...

NASA spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 3...

The flyby is a dress rehearsal for 2027 when Lucy reaches its first so-called Tr...

Scientists find "strongest evidence yet" of life on dis...

A British-U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet...

How scientists say they revived dire wolves from extinc...

Colossal Biosciences says it successfully gene-edited gray wolves to carry trait...

Can climate change really create zombie fungi, like in ...

As the HBO series "The Last of Us"​ returns, fans wonder: How much of the chilli...

NOAA could face 25% budget cut, slashing climate resear...

An internal government document proposes significant changes for the National Oc...

Remains of 5,000-year-old "elite woman" found at former...

The mummy was found in Aspero, a sacred site within the city of Caral that was a...

Trump admin fast-tracks fossil fuel projects, angering ...

Shortening permitting procedures for mining and oil drilling could adversely aff...

"Bone collector" caterpillar disguises itself in the re...

There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this...

NASA releases stunning space photos to mark Hubble anni...

The Hubble Space Telescope "opened a new window to the universe" when it launche...

Coral reef bleaching hits 84% worldwide, worst on recor...

Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's r...

Reporter's Notebook: If Earth's entire history was sque...

If Earth's entire 4.5 billion-year history was squeezed into a single, 24-hour d...

Richard Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, ...

Garwin advised several presidents published more than 500 papers and was granted...

Universe will die "much sooner than expected," research...

The universe is poised to die much faster than previously thought, according to ...

Rare New Zealand snail filmed laying egg from its neck

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were o...

15 years after BP oil spill, Louisiana coast marine rec...

In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon...

Cicada maps show where the insects will emerge in the U...

A large brood of periodical cicadas is due to emerge in the spring of 2025. Thes...

A massive brood of cicadas will soon emerge. Here's wha...

A notably large brood of periodical cicadas will emerge from the underground acr...