Science

LOS ANGELES—Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is set to unveil an underground transportation tunnel on Dec. 18, that could move people faster than subways. Musk also plans to show off the ...

Some weather experts say a polar vortex disruption could hit the United States and Canada by the end ...

SYDNEY—Rocket Lab, a rocket propulsion company backed by investors in Silicon Valley, has launched a batch of 13 ...

Nearly 100 times farther from the Sun than the Earth is, there's a point where the charged particles ...

Egypt unveiled a well-preserved 4,400-year-old tomb decorated with hieroglyphs and statues south of Cairo on Dec.15, and officials ...

NEW YORK—Facebook said on Dec. 14, that a software bug affecting nearly 7 million users may have exposed ...

The Australian government has announced its new space agency will be headquartered in South Australia. The Australian Space ...

Deep underground, deeper than the oceans, scientists have found a world teaming with life: creatures that together outweigh the ...

WASHINGTON—Voyager 2, a NASA probe launched in 1977 and designed for just a five-year mission, has become only ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft entered interstellar space, a region of space that only one other manmade spacecraft has ...

NASA released a video clip containing audio it captured from the surface of Mars. NASA’s Mars InSight Lander ...

A groundbreaking, $300 million study has discovered that children who spend at least seven hours a day on ...

Rare gold coins were discovered in the ancient Israeli port city of Caesarea, according to reports published this week. ...

A NASA scientist has claimed that Earth may have been once visited—or is being visited—by extraterrestrials, but we ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured “shiny” objects on Mars, but scientists are not sure what they are. “The planning ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived on Dec. 3, at the ancient asteroid Bennu, ...

HONG KONG—Early last year, a little-known Chinese researcher turned up at an elite meeting in Berkeley, California, where ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—As Mars' newest resident settles in, Planet Earth is working on three more landers and at ...

Google employees debated demoting conservative media outlets in its search results after President Donald Trump won the 2016 ...

A mysterious sea creature with sharp teeth and spike-covered skin was discovered by a New Zealand woman. Hanna ...

A researcher has said that brain functions may persist for some time after a person is pronounced clinically ...

A report said that fecal matter was discovered on every McDonald’s self-service touchscreen swabbed during an investigation in ...

HONG KONG—Scientists and bioethics experts reacted with shock, anger and alarm on Nov. 26 to a Chinese researcher's ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet ...

WASHINGTON—Some 115 years after the first powered flight, scientists have developed a radical new approach toward flying in ...

LOS ANGELES—NASA's first robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of a distant world hurtled closer to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A pair of tiny experimental satellites trailing NASA's InSight spacecraft all the way to Mars face ...