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Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have uncovered bones at a burial site that reveal the domestication of dogs in the area happened much earlier...

Space junk is a growing problem. Scientists want to fight it with lasers that can de-twinkle the stars.

The Japanese government announced plans to dump more than 1 million tons of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into t...

A months-long rescue operation transported the last of nine stranded giraffes to their new home in a mainland sanctuary.

The meteor was spotted at about 10 p.m. local time on April 12.

A third of Antarctica's vast offshore ice shelves would risk collapse into the ocean if the world warms by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fa...

The CDC and FDA are recommending a pause in administering the J&J vaccine to investigate reports of 6 cases of rare blood clots.

Fossilized footprints on a beach in Spain were made about 100,000 years ago by a family of Neanderthals, including children who jumped about...

The findings contradict some early research from U.K. health officials.

A lovely new image of the Martian north pole shows the Red Planet streaked with blue.

The trial will take place at 21 U.S. universities.

Each year, 5,200 tons of space dust fall to Earth, far outweighing larger meteorites that hit the planet.

A monoclonal antibody cocktail developed by Regeneron reduced risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 by 81% in household contacts living wi...

Gagarin became the first of humankind to blast off into space on April 12, 1961, but rumors continue to circulate that another cosmonaut had...

A baby boy born in Iraq with three penises is the first reported human case of triphallia. He's doing well after surgery.

NASA will land the first person of color in addition to the first woman on the moon with the Artemis program, NASA's Acting Administrator St...

The company hopes to make the vaccine available to the age group before the start of the fall school year.

La Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted explosively Friday, spewing ash tens of thousands of feet into the air.

There's a one-in-five chance of two large satellites colliding at a relative velocity of 32,679 mph (52,592 kph) over the Siberian Arctic Fr...

Adding speed bumps to a road in a national park in Zanzibar has reduced the number of collisions between cars and one of Africa's rarest pri...

Three years from today, on Monday, April 8, 2024, more than half a billion people across North America have the chance to see another Great...

Find out what black holes are, who discovered them, how we know they exist and what would happen if you fell into a black hole.

The permanent oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere took twice as long as previously believed and finally finished up to 100 million years later...

Scientists in China have discovered a new species of deadly snake and have named it after a shape-shifting snake goddess from Chinese mythol...

People with major depression had accelerated cellular aging by an average of two years compared to healthy controls.