For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...

Over time, cinnabar washed away from rainfall and seeped into the surrounding soil and water. But while a contaminant like ...

People were outraged this week after an official social media account for the White House posted a video that boasted about ...

She laid much of the theoretical groundwork for the atomic bomb, although she did not participate directly in its production.

A crescendo of voices from the worlds of religion, politics, business, sports and entertainment converged at the House of ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s embattled vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency — the second ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Given his "awful upbringing", it's no wonder the American president became such a destructive person, says Robert Sapolsky.

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly ...

The pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, a new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters has found—meaning that we could breach the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting ...

The clusters of satellites started small, but, like a viral outbreak, they grew almost without us noticing—and now we’re dealing with a pandemic. At the time, there were 7,500 active satellites ...

'If a new secretary of DHS isn't good enough, what is?': Elected officials weigh-in after President Trump announced Secretary ...