A blood test to hunt signs of multiple cancers in healthy people is facing its first major U.S. regulatory hurdle.

There's excitement on the beaches of Southern California.

A federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge as part of a land swap in Texas.

For years, scientists have explored ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere, including through direct air capture, changes to ocean chemistry so seawater can absorb more carbon and reforestation.

Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that's bigger than the Roman Colosseum, the result of a powerful impact two years ago.

A new study has found that the T.

A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979.

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye.

A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a baby girl from an embryo frozen for 22 years.

A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected.

The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August.

The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are leaving spaceflight behind.

Indonesian rescuers are searching for eight people who went missing at sea while heading the island of Anak Krakatau to report on a volcanic eruption.

The Trump administration named four officials to take over senior roles at the Food and Drug Administration, including the agency’s top leaders for drugs and vaccines.

Flights to and from Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta have resumed after ash from a volcanic eruption forced a two-day closure that halted nearly 3,000 flights.

Indonesia is maintaining closures at several airports and shifting schools to remote learning though the eruption of Anak Krakatau is easing.

Chimpanzees once used in hepatitis B vaccine experiments are getting health checks at their new home in Liberia.

A private spacecraft that was supposed to save NASA's sinking Swift Observatory has managed to come within nine miles of the doomed spacecraft and even snap pictures.

Two Mercury-bound spacecraft are in the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage.

Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died at 90.

Scientists have discovered an enormous 10-sided wave pattern in the icy ammonia clouds over Saturn's south pole.

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

Researchers are catching a wide range of sharks off New York’s Hamptons and outfitting them with small trackers as they seek to understand more about one of the world’s few confirmed great white shark nurseries.

Mount Sinabung in Indonesia has erupted, spewing black ash and smoke into the sky over Sumatra island.

NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off on a quest to find planets around other stars and explore the hidden universe.

Forecasters say Hurricane Karina has become a major hurricane in the Pacific Ocean, but poses no immediate threat to land.

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year have received the nation's highest space honor.

SpaceX has pulled off its biggest salvage operation yet, recovering its most recently launched Starship from the Indian Ocean.

A massive study shows what illnesses and injuries spike in emergency room visits during heat waves in Chicago.

Elon Musk’s space company plans to spend $100 billion to build a new spaceport in Louisiana to launch rockets.

A Chinese humanoid robot has set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing.

Alaska's North Slope tundra may look desolate, but crouch down and you'll see a lush jungle.

China has postponed its planned ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission.

It's the moon's turn to pull a disappearing act.

Over the past 50 years, the Gibbon Conservation Center has become a globally recognized institution dedicated to the care and well-being of gibbons.

Federal officials have announced sharp water cuts for the next two years for three Western states that rely on the imperiled Colorado River.

Harvard University Medical School has agreed to pay $53 million to settle a class action lawsuit over its former morgue manager’s illegal sale of human remains.

The Michigan Science Center is preparing to bring explosive reactions, cloud-making demonstrations, and other hands-on STEM experiences to communities across Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana during the 2026-2027 school year.

The mission to save NASA's sinking space telescope has been called off.

Eclipses may be wondrous, but nothing beats seeing the northern and southern lights from space.

President Donald Trump has picked Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration.

A telescope has spotted the fastest known star in the Milky Way.

Floating tentacled predators pulse and swirl in hypnotic patterns in the dark museum space, lit primarily by images projected on walls and the light from the saltwater tanks.

A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket.

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates have declined again, with exemptions reaching a record high.

A small but growing body of research shows that GLP-1 drugs often used to treat obesity may also work for the hormonal disorder known as PMOS.

Time is a concept that varies across cultures and history.

First-year students in U-M’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts next fall will take part in a new pilot program that will exclude first-semester grades from their transcripts.

A new study suggests a protective vest tested on a manikin during NASA's first Artemis moonshot could slash the radiation exposure of lunar astronauts during severe solar storms.

Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth briefly plunged parts of the planet into darkness.

Sorry, North America.

A coalition of farmers, consumer associations and environmental groups is urging Malaysia’s National Biosafety Board to reject a proposed field trial of genetically modified rice.

The first and only person to break the sound barrier in a car has his eye on another speed record.

Astronomers say viewing conditions are promising for the Perseid meteor shower this year.

A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon's fresh crash scene.

Scientists are creating a new kind of vaccine that teaches the immune system to intercept a type of brewing colon cancer before it turns into a full-fledged tumor.

A new study calculates that human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada’s massive summer wildfires.

Guatemalan authorities say activity at the Fuego volcano is gradually decreasing after it began two days ago.

Scientists say they're certain that a SpaceX rocket has slammed into the moon as predicted.

Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet.

Scientists at a biotech company have used gene editing to create two hypoallergenic beagles that don't trigger allergies.

With parts of the globe aflame in wildfires, deadly heat waves parking over cities, record hot oceans and a strengthening super El Nino, it seems like we’re baking through the hottest year on record.

For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain with an even longer encore next summer.

A SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers last year.

Two new studies reveal climate change's fingerprints over extreme fire weather-triggering infernos in Spain and France.

New research says ancient mummy DNA provides the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the Americas.

Experts say the world is experiencing two opposing fire trends because of human impact.

The spacecraft rushing to the rescue of NASA's sinking Swift Observatory has run into trouble.

Scientists are alarmed by the British government's decision to cut funding for the Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory.

Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who generated both fascination and revulsion around the globe with his “Body Worlds” exhibits of preserved human corpses, has died.

SpaceX’s Starship rocket has blasted off on another test flight, this time carrying 20 of the most advanced Starlinks.

Federal health advisers are recommending broader access to controversial chemicals called peptides.

Rei Ami, known for her singing voice in “KPop Demon Hunters,” recently faced real sharks during a dive.

More than 2,000 volunteers are helping Polish scientists restore a Mastodonsaurus skeleton.

A two-armed space robot is on its way to give extra life to out-of-gas satellites thousands of miles up.

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake has shaken the Andes region of Peru, killing at least six people.

America's most daring, extraordinary feat, landing astronauts on the moon, remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone anywhere.

Wildfire smoke, which is increasing in the Northern Hemisphere as the climate warms, attacks nearly every system in the body.

SpaceX's next Starship test flight is off until at least next week after a last-second abort on the pad.

Astronomers have discovered a faint new world orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek.

A blood test that helps diagnose Alzheimer's might also forecast if healthy older adults will develop symptoms.

A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world’s largest and most complete specimens has sold for a record $50.1 million at an auction.

An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer's disease in a markedly different way than current treatments — by lowering the brain's production of a protein called tau.

A distinguished American marine biologist was shot and killed by three men in the central Philippines at the weekend.

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries.

China has successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch, marking a breakthrough for its space program.

Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer who was the oldest woman to launch into space, has died.

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year are back in Florida, reunited with their capsule and launch team.

A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

Neil, a 2,200-pound elephant seal, has returned to his birthplace on the Australian coast, causing quite a stir.

Researchers are beginning a highly anticipated study of two possible treatments for the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo.

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem.

A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a Trump administration panel studying UFOs.

The largest digital camera ever built is beginning to capture images of unseen corners of the universe in finer detail.

Cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan’s first citizen in space, has died at age 67.

Italy is putting on display one of the best known examples of Etruscan painting.

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer.

For those trapped in rubble after an earthquake, survival depends on many factors, including weather and access to water and air.

NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.

Drop thousands of Argentina fans into Texas for the World Cup and the debate is inevitable.