Flooded cornfields near the Tennessee River in northern Alabama are a paradise for birders who flock to see tens of thousands of migrating sandhill cranes every winter.

About half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure and too few have it under control.

Emails and videos of burned buildings in Los Angeles versus those still standing have been flying back and forth among architects, builders and fire safety specialists around the world.

IMSA arranged for 27 high school students who excel in STEM programs to come to the speedway to educate the teens on how many opportunities exist in motorsports for those interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Disabled scientists are trying to make research labs and fieldwork more accessible.

SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean.

Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s called a planetary parade.

SpaceX has caught its Starship rocket back at the pad following liftoff.

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life.

One of NASA's two stuck astronauts is getting a change of scenery.

Blue Origin has launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight.

Officials at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are bracing for crowds eager to get a glimpse of lava fountaining from an eruption.

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage.

A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists.

SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business up there.

A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida and its manatee population.

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant have been dumped ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to stop them before they destroy more neighborhoods.

Researchers have used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru.

The National Weather Service’s Los Angeles page screams ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ in hot pink letters against a gray background.

New research suggests that Americans' risk for developing dementia over a lifetime may be higher than previously thought.

Blue Origin will try again to launch its massive new rocket as early as Thursday after calling off the debut launch because of ice buildup in critical plumbing.

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold.

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole.

A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but meteorologists say the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual.

An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice that's at least 1.2 million years old.

New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction.

Egypt has unveiled several discoveries near the famed city of Luxor including ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3,600 years.

Rescuers in the freezing, high-altitude Tibet region in western China searched a second day for any remaining victims of a deadly earthquake that struck near a holy city for Tibetan Buddhists, before shifting their focus to resettling the survivors.

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars.

At a time when North American bird populations are declining dramatically, the number of people watching them is increasing.

A strong earthquake has shaken a high-altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington were awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Meteorologists forecast a strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States.

Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.

Researchers in England have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur tracks that date back 166 million years.

Solar storms may bring northern lights to several states in the northern U.

Maryland is suing the company that produces the waterproof material Gore-Tex.

NASA has confirmed that a spacecraft has made the closest approach to the sun.

Scientists say human-caused climate change added an average of 41 days of dangerous heat worldwide in 2024.

A great gray owl and a snowy owl are being treated by experts after being rescued by a northern Minnesota woman.

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region.

A biologist hid 350 audio monitors across Costa Rica’s tropical rainforests to spy on endangered spider monkeys in order to help protect them.

A NASA spacecraft is about to make the closest approach to the sun.

Two new perentie lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to be bred there.

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.

The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses.

The Quadrantid meteor shower will be the year’s first chance to see fireballs in the sky.

Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilized mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home this year.

The federal government says that two endangered whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off Massachusetts and that one is likely to die from its injuries.

The last meteor shower of the year peaks a few days before Christmas.

A Japanese space startup says its second attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit had been aborted minutes after liftoff.

Scientists in China have almost finished building a massive underground detector to sniff out mysterious particles called neutrinos.

NASA's two stuck astronauts just got their space mission extended again.

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club.

New research suggests that Saturn's rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet.

A giant salamander that evolved on the supercontinent Pangaea and outlived the dinosaurs has been proposed for federal protection by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries.

A new study says Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago.

The global chemical weapons watchdog has opened an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Syria over concerns about the country’s stockpile of toxic chemicals in the wake of the overthrow of President Bashar Assad.

The Geminids are among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids.

About 87,000 people are being evacuated in a central Philippine region after a volcano erupted with a huge plume of ash and superhot streams of gas and debris hurtling down its slopes.

A surprising study of temperature-related deaths in Mexico upends conventional thinking about what age group is hit hardest by heat.

The most expensive dinosaur fossil ever discovered will be on view in New York starting this weekend.

The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a stretch of the West Coast — from Northern California to Oregon — before being canceled.

NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo.

NASA's two stuck astronauts have hit the six-month mark in space.

Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine.

A pair of European satellites has rocketed into orbit on a mission to create artificial solar eclipses.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a tech billionaire who performed the first private spacewalk to lead NASA.

As global warming fills the plankton-rich waters of New England with death traps for sea turtles, the number of stranded reptiles has multiplied over the last 20 years.

Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's rarest whale species.

British lawmakers have given initial approval to a bill that would help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales.

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago.

British lawmakers are expected to vote on a law proposed to help terminally ill adults end their lives.

Solar storms may produce faint auroras across the northern rim of the United States this Thanksgiving.

Scientists are using used fossilized feces and vomit from Poland to reconstruct how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth.

More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand have been safely returned to the ocean after conservation workers and residents helped to refloat them by lifting them on sheets.

Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months.

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize.

The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia has been released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore on a popular tourist beach.

A volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland is spewing lava from a fissure in its seventh eruption since December.

Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body’s estimated 37.2 trillion cells.

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought.

SpaceX has launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching it with giant mechanical arms.

Eagle lovers around the world who were crushed when the nest of a Minnesota pair and their chick collapsed on live video last year will get a when a new eagle camera goes live this week.

Authorities say four monkeys remain free nearly two weeks after a group of 43 escaped from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research.

Authorities say only six monkeys are still on the loose after dozens escaped earlier this month from a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research.

Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main plenary halls at the United Nations climate summit on what is traditionally their biggest protest day during the two-week talks.

New research confirms volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon billions of years ago.

Environmental advocates released reports Friday decrying fossil fuel industry influence at these climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, called COP29.

Authorities say Just eight monkeys remain free from the group who broke out of a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research.

The November supermoon will still be almost full when the Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend.

For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to get — even as countries gather for another round of talks to curb warming, according to an analysis Thursday.

More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers this week announced that it was a new species of sea slug.

Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year.

Authorities say two monkeys have been returned to a South Carolina compound that breeds the animals for medical research.

Scientists can’t know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale warning signs.

Authorities say five more monkeys have been returned to a South Carolina compound that breeds the animals for medical research.

Astronomers say better catch this week's supermoon.