Science

With 91 percent of the 8.8 million tons of plastic added to oceans each year originating in rivers, the Yangtze and five other Chinese rivers are the dominant polluters. Pollution ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced during a visit to NASA headquarters in Washington an AU$150 million (about ...

The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. And while officials ...

It all started the day that two curious high school students who were aspiring scientists visited a waste ...

In a farmer’s field in Shropshire, England, a seemingly innocuous rabbit hole leads to a mysterious underground chamber. ...

A 2,100-year-old belt buckle has been described as “iPhone-like,” leaving an archaeologist in amazement. Archeologist Pavel Leus, who ...

A newly discovered comet hurtling toward the orbit of Mars has scientists scurrying to confirm whether it came ...

Imagine you're taking a stroll in the forest, enjoying the fresh air, exercise, and beautiful natural surroundings. All ...

LONDON—Scientists for the first time have detected water in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant ...

Researchers have revealed new evidence suggesting what happened on the day the dinosaurs went extinct. A new study ...

Aliens or non-human civilized life within our own Milky Way could have already visited Earth but we just aren't ...

A court has awarded Australian academic Dr. Peter Ridd over A$1.2 million ($800,000) in damages after finding the ...

This past year, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been battling the second-largest Ebola outbreak in recorded history. ...

Derek McLennan does not have a degree in archaeology nor does he work for a museum. He is ...

When the coastguard was alerted about a strange vessel that had washed ashore in County Mayo in Ireland, ...

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a humanoid robot failed to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on ...

A new mineral on Earth, previously known to only exist in space, has been officially recognized, and it’s ...

BEIJING—Scientists are working to develop a vaccine to help guard the world's pork supply as a deadly virus ...

An unmanned spacecraft India launched last month began orbiting the moon Tuesday to study previously discovered water deposits.

What happens after you die? A team of researchers in New York may have come close to solving ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy emitted a bizarre flash of light.

Many of us have read about the incredible things that corvids, the family that includes crows and ravens, ...

History lies just beneath our feet. This is especially true in Greece, where civilization goes back thousands of ...

The unprecedented Mauna Ulu eruption of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii led to some spectacular imagery a few decades back. ...

An Irish teenager won an international online science competition sponsored by Google earlier in August. West Cork genius Fionn Ferreira, ...

An expedition revealed rare close footage of a deep-sea shark that typically weighs more than a ton on ...

The bodies of a young man and woman who died 4,000 years ago have been found buried face-to-face ...