SCIENCE

A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon.

A new work by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, written for an upcoming NASA mission, is a glance at outer space that returns back to Earth.

Boeing's astronaut capsule faces more launch delays after new problems cropped up.

One year after the killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, some people in the remote Javari Valley region of the Brazilian Amazon have seen their lives change, but not for the better.

It’s time for residents along the southeastern U.S. coastline to get plans in place as the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season gets underway on Thursday.

A group of scientists say in a new study that climate change in itself wasn't responsible for a series of exceptional rain and resulting deadly flooding in northern Italy in recent weeks.

NASA is holding its first public meeting on UFOs a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings.

A new study says Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losing its natural areas, but for well-being of people living on it.

A private crew is back on Earth after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station.

A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a rural Nevada town's unusual bid to halt government repairs to an aging irrigation canal that burst and flooded more than 500 homes in 2008.

China has launched a spacecraft carrying a new three-person crew for its orbiting space station.

The United Arab Emirates has unveiled plans to send a spaceship to explore the galaxy’s main asteroid belt, the latest space project by the oil-rich nation after it launched the successful Hope spacecraft to Mars in 2020.

Hundreds of people visited a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019.

An International Atomic Energy Agency team has arrived in Tokyo for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a plan that has been strongly opposed by local fishing communities and neighboring countries.

New York City is sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes, pavement and humanity itself.

China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030.

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink says it's gotten permission from U.S. regulators to begin testing its device in people.

A judge has ruled that the U.S. Forest Service can keep using chemical retardant to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of federal law.

A Tokyo company whose lunar lander slammed into the moon says a software issue and a last-minute switch in the touchdown location led to the crash.

Three cheetah cubs born to a big cat brought to India from Africa last year died in the past week in central India’s Kuno National Park.

Virgin Galactic has completed a final test flight before taking paying customers on brief trips to space.

Two clashing climatic behemoths, one natural and one with human fingerprints, will square off this summer to determine how quiet or chaotic the Atlantic hurricane season will be.

South Korea has launched a commercial-grade satellite for the first time as part of its growing space development program, as rival North Korea is pushing to place its first military spy satellite into orbit.

Famous Danish painters may have gotten supplies from an unusual source: breweries.

Scientists and students placed tracking bands on four boisterous peregrine falcon chicks who live on top of Michigan State University’s football stadium.

Yellowstone National Park officials say they had to kill a newborn bison because its herd wouldn’t take the animal back after a man picked it up.

The head of Iran’s nuclear program is insisting that his nation will cooperate with international inspectors on any “new activities” regarding its nuclear sector.

Scientists say that sea urchins in Israel's Gulf of Eilat in the Red Sea are dying at an alarming rate, threatening the sea's prized coral reef ecosystems.

Prosecutors in Germany say authorities have raided 15 properties across the country and seized assets in an investigation into the financing of protests by the Last Generation climate activist group.

South Korea is about to conduct its first commercial-grade satellite launch as rival North Korea is pushing to place its first military spy satellite into orbit.

Deep in the Amazon, Brazil is building a complex of towers arrayed in six rings poised to spray carbon dioxide into the rainforest.

Germany’s government is facing a major test after two junior partners in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition sparred publicly over a key element in the country’s ambitious climate policy.

Climate change protesters have been dragged away as they tried to storm the stage at Shell’s shareholder meeting.

Heavy equipment crews are moving sand along a stretch of badly eroded beach in North Wildwood where a bitter fight over how to protect its rapidly shrinking beaches has led to $33 million worth of litigation.

A private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other visitors has arrived at the International Space Station.

A Brazilian non-profit has created a new model for land ownership that welcomes both local people and scientists to collaborate in preserving the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical forest.

SpaceX's next private flight to the International Space Station is awaiting takeoff.

Unfounded claims about Indiana University’s sex research institute, its founder and child sex abuse have been so persistent over the years that when the Legislature prohibited the institute from using state dollars, one lawmaker hailed the move as “long overdue.”.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after losing out to SpaceX.

Climate experts say the floods that sent rivers of mud tearing through towns in Italy’s northeast this week are the result of extreme weather phenomena that are becoming increasingly frequent around the world.

Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano rumbled to life again this week, spewing out towering clouds of ash that forced 11 villages to cancel school sessions.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake Friday in the far Pacific created small tsunami waves in Vanuatu.

Museum officials in Grand Rapids, Michigan, showed off mastodon bones that were unearthed last year during a drainage dig in the western part of the state and belonged to a juvenile male mastodon that lived 13,000 years ago.

New video and photographs purporting to show ivory-billed woodpeckers flying in a Louisiana forest have been published by researchers.

Hundreds of measures targeting transgender people have been proposed in statehouses this year, and several have moved forward this week.

A red-tailed hawk named Pale Male has died after bringing a touch of the wild to swanky Manhattan for 30 years.

A searing heat wave in parts of southern Asia in April this year was made at least 30 times more likely by climate change, according to a rapid study by international scientists released Wednesday.

The United Nations' weather agency says there's a two-out-of-three chance that the world will reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change sometime in the next five years.

Early warnings from weather agencies and better preparedness by local governments and aid agencies likely saved thousands of lives during a powerful cyclone that slammed into Bangladesh and Myanmar over the weekend.

An unexpected visitor spotted sunbathing on a beach in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv is turning heads and causing a media buzz.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a nearly $11 billion investment on Tuesday to help bring affordable clean energy to rural communities throughout the country.

Powerful Cyclone Mocha has flooded streets, blew off roofs and severed communications in western Myanmar.

A university professor broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers.

Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming.

Bangladesh and Myanmar are bracing as an extremely severe cyclone is set to hit their coastal areas, as authorities told thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter.

Volunteers in coastal districts of Bangladesh are using loudspeakers to urge people to seek shelter as the delta nation braces for an extremely severe cyclone, which is expected to slam ashore in Bangladesh and Myanmar in the next 24 hours.

A crucial radar antenna on a spacecraft bound for Jupiter is no longer jammed.

Stragglers packed up belongings in cars, trucks and at least one pickup truck before a looming deadline to evacuate a village in eastern Switzerland facing an urgent rockslide threat.

Authorities in Bangladesh and Myanmar are preparing to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people as they brace for a severe cyclonic storm churning in the Bay of Bengal.

It's become an annual conservation event in central Louisiana: Young Louisiana pine snakes that were bred in captivity are released in Kisatchie National Forest in central Louisiana.

Attorneys for a group of youths suing Montana over damages caused by climate change say officials repealed the state’s energy policy to avoid an upcoming trial.

Scientists studying bat species that have been hit hard by the fungus that causes white nose syndrome say there is a glimmer of good news against the disease that has killed millions of bats across North America.

Earthquakes have rattled a large area of Northern California, with minor damage reported.

A metallic object that punched a hole in the roof of a central New Jersey home this week, smashing into a hardwood floor and bouncing around a bedroom, was a meteorite.

Norway has taken over the Arctic Council’s rotating presidency from Russia.

Astronomers have created a stunning mosaic of baby star clusters hiding in our galactic backyard.

For two decades, scientists have been comparing every person's genetic blueprint they study to a template that relies mostly on just one man.

A U.S. agency is agreeing to participate in an in-depth study on whether dredging a Georgia shipping channel in the spring and summer would pose threats to rare sea turtles.

The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration is warning that deep cuts in federal spending could make summer air travel worse.

The year's first lunar eclipse is underway, and the best viewing is in Asia and Australia.

A new report says a shortage of monkeys available for medical research undermines U.S. readiness to respond to public health emergencies.

For the first time, researchers have captured and radio-collared a bear in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles.

Scientists for the first time have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet.

The Federal Aviation Administration is being sued by wildlife and environmental groups over SpaceX's launch of its giant rocket from Texas.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country's first astronaut will travel to the International Space Station by the end of the year.

A new study suggests water on Mars may be more widespread and recent than previously thought.

A critical antenna is jammed on a Jupiter-bound spacecraft launched two weeks ago.

Scientists from around the world are comparing the genetic blueprints of an array of animals to gain new insights into our own species.

Doctors are zapping the heart with radiation normally reserved for cancer in a bid to better treat a dangerous kind of irregular heartbeat.

The story of how scientists discovered DNA's shape may be getting another twist.

A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon.

An intense solar storm has the northern lights gracing the skies farther south than usual.

A spacecraft around Mars has sent back close-up photos of the red planet's little moon.

All Michiganders could catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights on Sunday night.

Explorers have announced they found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in Australia’s largest maritime wartime loss with a total of 1,080 lives.

The Chilean government’s newly announced plan to have the state take a majority stake in the lithium industry has disconcerted business leaders.

The U.S. government is launching a new program to combat the scourge of derelict crab and lobster traps.

German climate activists best known for bringing traffic to a standstill by gluing themselves to the road instead staged a rare protest on the move Friday, marching through Berlin and causing gridlock in parts of the capital.

An old NASA satellite that studied the sun has plunged back to Earth.

There's a low-tech remedy for the nitrate pollution affecting waterways in Iowa and elsewhere in the United States.

For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars.

SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first test flight and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.

About 20,000 eclipse chasers have witnessed a rare solar eclipse plunge part of Australia’s northwest coast into brief midday darkness under a cloudless sky.

Scientists have found the source of a mysterious outbreak that killed sea urchins across the Caribbean last year.

A giant panda on long-term loan from China has died in a zoo in northern Thailand, six months before she was due to return home.

An old NASA satellite is expected to fall to Earth.

Scientists say many North American bats are in trouble.

SpaceX has called off the first launch attempt of its giant rocket.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship.

SpaceX has cleared the final hurdle for launching its new giant Starship from Texas as early as next week on a first test flight.