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From Borneo to Bolivia, here are just a handful of places around the world were deforestation has become a real problem

A Russian module accidentally pushed the International Space Station out of place. Now, a NASA flight director has revealed that the event w...

The infected chipmunks had no known contact with people.

A fizzled example of a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, suggests these outbursts can be surprisin...

Far-flung spacecraft are helping us learn about the solar system's edge.

Starting Monday (Aug. 2), you can find Saturn shining in the sky as part of a celestial phenomenon called opposition.

Here's why the nuclear bombs dropped in Japan left shadows of people on the ground and buildings.

The outbreak has changed our understanding of the coronavirus delta variant.

These bacteria may help ward off infections.

In a new experiment, scientists turned water into a shiny, yellowish metal.

The company's Electron rocket launched a small satellite for the U.S. military early Thursday morning (July 29), acing its first mission sin...

Researchers have uncovered a 310 million-year-old horseshoe crab fossil complete with an exceptionally rare example of a fossilized brain.

Scientists hope to use this new discovery to better understand how space-time warps and bends in the presence of massive objects like black...

AI firm DeepMind says it can predict the shape of every protein in the human body and in 20 species of research animals.

Polar bears are the largest bear species and are supremely adapted to their Arctic habitat, whether they are prowling the ice or swimming in...

In the wisp-thin sky of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest satellite in the solar system, astronomers have for the first time detected evi...

A Bronze Age urn found in Hungary holds the remains of an elite woman and twin fetuses.

Information about asteroids, where they come from and whether one might hit Earth.

Iceland may be the last exposed remnant of a nearly Texas-size continent — called Icelandia — that sank beneath the North Atlantic Ocean abo...

Fossils from northwestern Canada may represent ancient sponges dating to 890 million years ago, making them the oldest known examples of ani...

A 150-year-old theory about an otherworldly shape proposed by Lord Kelvin, one of history's greatest physicists, has finally been put to the...

A German X-ray mission is mapping the distribution of black holes and neutron stars in the Universe, having discovered over two million such...

On Monday (July 26), astronauts said goodbye to a cornerstone of the International Space Station and captured stunning images of the compart...

Whale watchers in Japan recently saw a pair of white orcas swimming side by side in a pod off the coast of Hokkaido.

On Tuesday (July 27), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated their coronavirus mask guidelines. Here's why.