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An Indian rocket carrying a new Earth-observation satellite for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) suffered a catastrophic failur...

NOAA researchers spotted a mysterious, blood-red jellyfish deep off the New England coast. It may be a new species unknown to science.

The FDA is planning to update the emergency use authorizations for Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines to include a third dose for immuno...

Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales, with enormous square-shaped heads and the biggest brains of any animal on Earth.

Smoke from massive wildfires in Russia's eastern Siberia region has reached the geographic North Pole "for the first time in recorded histor...

Astronomers say a weird star careening through the Milky Way could have survived the explosive powers of a supernova.

A beach walker in the U.K. recently stumbled across a dead compass jellyfish with a juvenile fish trapped inside its bell.

A secret cache of Nazi artifacts — including badges adorned with eagles and swastikas, and a portrait of Adolf Hitler — has been found in Ha...

Hints in the data suggest the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has the most breakthroughs, while Moderna has the least.

Concentric ripples in galactic dust clouds triggered by a powerful black-hole X-ray burst can be seen in a new image released by NASA.

NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft is making its ninth daring dive past our neighborhood star in a continuing quest to puzzle out secrets of how...

Here's what immunodeficiency means.

A record-breaking female Nathusius' pipistrelle bat traveled more than 1,200 miles from London to Russia, where it was recently killed by a...

A collection of 10 of the best satellite photos to come out of the Landsat program.

The disease, called melioidosis, is usually only seen in countries with tropical climates.

Get ready: The Perseid meteor shower peaks on Thursday (Aug. 12), and it has the potential to put on a good show.

The mysterious strange dimming seen last year in the huge star Betelgeuse may be from giant sunspots and temperature fluctuations.

Archaeologists have found evidence of an earthquake that hit the City of David in Jerusalem about 2,800 years ago and that could be a major...

The early universe was a crazy place where, if conditions were right, any old patch of gas may have spontaneously shrunk to form a black hol...

Perseverance drilled its first sample-collecting hole on Friday (Aug. 6), but data beamed back to Earth by the rover indicate that no Mars r...

The recent suggestion that British ministers may have to consider culling or vaccinating animals to prevent the coronavirus from picking up...

With its frigid temperatures, remoteness from the sun and general dustiness, changing Mars to be more Earth-like is more challenging than it...

Burning through parched fuel like matchsticks, the Dixie Fire in Northern California has mushroomed in size this week to become the largest...

Despite sharing almost 100% of their DNA, identical twins have different fingerprints, thanks to unique environmental factors.

Rats are notorious for spreading disease.