Science

Why It Matters: Competition in the rocket business.In recent years, the business of launching spacecraft and astronauts to orbit has...

Evelyn M. Witkin, whose discovery of the process by which DNA repairs itself opened the door to significant advances in...

Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a biologist who studies how wild animals repurpose human materials, thought he had seen everything. In his research...

Natural gas, long seen as a cleaner alternative to coal and an important tool in the fight to slow global...

Lightning comes and goes in brilliant and terrifying flashes. With powerful enough satellites in orbit, all that crackling static in...

Some 50,000 to 10,000 years ago as ice sheets melted and the planet warmed, around 100 species of gigantic animals...

The LatestA federal court in Richmond has halted construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, setting off a battle with Congress...

Florida’s coral reefs are facing what could be an unprecedented threat from a marine heat wave that is warming the...

For the past few summers, numerous surfers in Santa Cruz, Calif., have been victims of a crime at sea: boardjacking....

Two world-renowned virologists appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and delivered a pointed defense of their findings that the coronavirus...