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The FBI said Thursday it's aware of a possible unidentified flying object (UFO) sighting, but would not confirm whether the bureau is probing the incident. "The FBI is aware of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer ...

LOS ANGELES—NASA's science rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, streaked through the ...

An Australian infectious disease physician said it would take six years for the world to be adequately vaccinated ...

Yale scientists are working on a treatment for skin cancer that could potentially replace surgery by injecting nanoparticles ...

Every year, students compete to win the James Dyson Sustainability Award. The contest has produced remarkable, innovative inventions, ...

Archeologists in Spain have discovered a 5,000-year-old crystal dagger dating all the way back to prehistoric civilizations. Not ...

Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch scientist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work understanding the ...

Pfizer announced small variations in the original COVID-19 virus and mutant strains are unlikely to lower their vaccines' ...

LESBOS, Greece—Greek scientists on the volcanic island of Lesbos say they have found a rare fossilized tree whose ...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on Tuesday announced that a phase 3 trial still in progress of an antibody cocktail has ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned experts not to rely solely on the results of a PCR ...

Imagine finding out that an ordinary-looking rock you’ve been using as a stepping stone is actually an ancient ...

Researchers at the University of New South Wales believe they are one step closer to a tool capable ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX launched a newer, bigger version of its Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station ...

A mysterious metal monolith has been found standing out in the remote Utah desert, and the strange installation ...

In northeast Kenya, the world’s last known surviving white giraffe has been fitted with a GPS tracking device ...

A nasal spray that slows CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus infection has been developed by researchers at the ...

The billion-year wait for the perfect sparkler is over after an Australian-led scientific team discovered how to make ...

The largest amount of astronomical chemical data ever collected on the Milky Way will soon provide answers about ...

Something in space has been releasing fleeting blasts of radio waves, and scientists have finally unraveled this decade-old ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. probe that collected a sample from an asteroid earlier this week retrieved so much material that ...

STOCKHOLM—Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for developing a way of editing genes likened to ...

STOCKHOLM—Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes, the ...

STOCKHOLM—Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton jointly won the Nobel Prize ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Bulked-up, mutant “mighty mice” held onto their muscle during a monthlong stay at the International Space ...

Australian medical scientists in the race to find an effective treatment for COVID-19 have turned to an unlikely ...