A new kind of flu vaccine is moving a step closer to the U.S. market.

Tropical Storm Arthur has weakened to a low pressure area along the upper Texas coast.

Scientists have found evidence of the oldest known plague, dating back about 5,500 years ago — some 200 years earlier than previously thought.

African and Commonwealth nations have called for a swift implementation of a landmark treaty protecting the high seas.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has shaken central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least one resident and injuring dozens of people.

Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration.

Philippine officials say that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south.

Brazilian officials have announced a significant drop in deforestation rates.

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Japan has resumed operations.

New research shows that extreme floods in coastal areas are becoming more common as climate change causes sea levels to rise.

Scientists have unearthed marine communities thriving on a millions-year-old whale graveyard.

A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe has released its first major findings.

NASA has revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in eventually landing astronauts on the moon.

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry.

Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died.

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has rocked the southern Philippines, killing at least 35 people.

Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were told Friday that they were being fired, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of Director Kash Patel.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have briefly taken shelter during a repair to fix a new leak.

A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.

There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship.

The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear.

Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen’s home within the hive.

NASA's Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead after six months of radio silence.

The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors funded by the National Science Foundation.

Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin says last week's rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and some other critical parts of the launch pad.

The British government is sticking to its net-zero goal despite global conflicts affecting energy supplies.

Archaeologists are digging beneath Notre Dame cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago.

NASA says a fireball as heavy as an elephant caused the double boom that rang out over New England.

New research shows a novel pill is helping people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer.

Flamingos are flocking to the Venetian Lagoon in record numbers as ecological efforts restore damaged wetlands.

Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter Claudia Lemieux Bishop.

The White House is moving to give political appointees more control over federal grants.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is assessing damage to its Florida launch pad after a rocket exploded during a test firing.

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after spending seven months in space.

Residents in the East Java province of Indonesia have scattered flowers and paid their respects and prayed at the edge of a mud lake.

A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has exploded during a test at the launch pad.

New York City residents and visitors are treated to a phenomenon twice a year known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

A study details a surprising new way into how pigeons find their way home.

Get set for a rare blue micromoon this weekend.

A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.

SpaceX Starship launches are on hold pending an investigation into last week's test flight.

Robots that look like dogs or people try to replicate symmetrical shapes found in nature.

NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II mission.

China has launched the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft with three astronauts heading to its space station.

SpaceX has launched its biggest, most powerful Starship yet.

SpaceX's newest and biggest Starship will have to wait at least another day before launching on a test flight from Texas.

A dying star has never looked so lovely.

A heat wave has gripped large parts of India with roads and markets emptying during afternoons.

Neptune's mysterious, far-flung moon Nereid may be the last of the planet's original companions.

Two humpback whales have made record-breaking crossings between Australia and Brazil.

A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures says it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment.

France’s Pasteur Institute has fully sequenced the Andes virus found in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship.

A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid is swinging past Mars for a gravity boost.

An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone American placed in isolation after he helped care for fellow passengers who became sick on board.

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Neil deGrasse Tyson has turned his lifelong fascination with aliens into a new book, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.”.

Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands.

The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife worried about the anticipated arrival there of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.

A spiral galaxy's brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA's Webb Space Telescope.

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive over 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.

Health officials in several countries are trying to identify and follow people who may have been exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship.

Oceanwide Expeditions has revealed that 30 passengers disembarked from its cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24.

Kelp, a kind of seaweed, can be used in biofuels that one day could power ships and aircraft.

A new study suggests that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will soon light the sky with debris from Halley’s comet.

Mexico City is sinking nearly 10 inches every year, making it one of the world’s fastest-sinking metropolitan areas.

New Zealanders are working to bring the kiwi back to the hills around Wellington.

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The wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard ship lost in a deadly attack more than a century ago, during World War I, was been discovered off the coast of England.

California regulators apologized to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as they settled a lawsuit that claimed a state agency showed political bias against the rocket company and its chief executive.

At Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, a weather station 15 miles south of Boston, staff and volunteers have been using many of the same tools to monitor the weather since it opened in 1885.

Four critically endangered mountain bongos arrived in Kenya on their way to their native forests after years in the care of a zoo in the Czech Republic.

The spacecraft that flew four astronauts around the moon is back where its record-breaking journey began.

The Supreme Court seems divided over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer.

The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation.

Archaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

The Atacama Desert in Chile offers some of the clearest views of the universe, thanks to its dry climate, high altitude and isolation from light pollution.

Speculation about links among a handful U.S. scientists who have died or disappeared in recent years was largely confined to niche online communities less than two months ago.

The Sombrero galaxy and its glowing halo of stars have never looked this good.

The Food and Drug Administration says it will offer ultra-fast review to three psychedelic drugs being studied for hard-to-treat mental health conditions, including major depression.

A massive ice block on the route above Mount Everest's base camp is delaying climbers seeking to scale the world's highest peak.

Apollo astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt knows what the Artemis II crew was feeling when it rocketed into space this month for a historic lunar flyby: Pure excitement and the potential for so much more.

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been an octopus.

A new study suggests that the comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that had yet to gel into its own solar system.

Desert canyons in eastern Utah will be churning this spring with huge volumes of water in a desperate attempt to keep a reservoir on the Colorado River generating electricity.

There’s a surprising amount of science in a bag of potato chips.

A Republican senator juggling three roles — lawmaker, doctor and political candidate seeking reelection — has walked a fine line as he questioned Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sen. Bill Cassidy supported Kennedy's confirmation as health secretary but is a strong vaccine advocate and has clashed with him over vaccine policies.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin is blaming a bad engine for a failed launch that left a satellite in the wrong orbit, dooming it.

Wildfires used to die down and even stop at night with cooler temperatures and increased humidity.

The Artemis II astronauts who ignited a lunar renaissance are giving high marks to their moonship for its performance during reentry — especially the heat shield.

The American chestnut is a singular, iconic tree of the eastern United States.

Scientists for the first time have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole.

New York launched ambitious goals to cut its long-term greenhouse gas emissions with clarion calls about saving the future.

With NASA's lunar comeback a galactic-sized smash, the space agency already has the next Artemis flight in its sights.

Artemis II's moon-traveling astronauts are back home and feted to a thunderous welcome.

Marine heat waves are supercharging the damage caused by hurricanes and tropical cyclones across the globe.

The first astronauts to visit the moon in more than a half-century are home.

The Artemis II astronauts are tidying up their lunar cruiser for Friday's “fireball” return to Earth.