Science

Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, returned to Earth on April 20, the day he turned 70 years old. That...

One day in the year 79, Pompeii came under fire. The explosion of nearby Mount Vesuvius sent a mushroom cloud...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday it would stop tracking the cost of the country’s most expensive...

The Trump administration has moved to end federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a showy grouse with the misfortune...

The egg drop challenge is an annual rite of passage for many students learning about physics: Swaddle an egg in...

Utah and Tennessee passed laws requiring foods containing vaccines to be classified as drugs, even though no such foods are...

President Trump said on Wednesday that he would nominate Casey Means, a Stanford-educated doctor turned critic of corporate influence on...

A coalition of states led by Washington, Colorado and California sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, charging that it was...

True friends, most people would agree, are there for each other. Sometimes that means offering emotional support. Sometimes it means...

Humans have visually documented about 1,470 square miles, or a mere 0.001 percent, of the deep seafloor, according to a...