Science News

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—With eight successful Mars landings, NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover. The spacecraft Perseverance—set for liftoff this week—is NASA’s brawniest and brainiest Martian rover yet. ...

President Donald Trump hailed his administration's effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine as a once-in-a-generation push that would ...

The United Arab Emirates launched its first mission to Mars as it strives to develop its scientific and ...

A former host of popular science show “Mythbusters,” Grant Imahara, has died suddenly at the age of 49. ...

Researchers who published a widely cited paper on fatal police shootings in 2019 said they've requested a retraction ...

The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine lowers the death rate of COVID-19 patients, U.S. researchers have said. Researchers conducted a ...

This weekend, stargazers in the Eastern Hemisphere will be treated to an annular solar eclipse on the heels ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday it's stopping an arm of a clinical trial that was analyzing hydroxychloroquine ...

A cheap drug that's widely available reduces the chance of dying from COVID-19, researchers said. An arm of ...

Former NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes the first woman to reach the lowest point on Earth.

A top journal retracted a study on hydroxychloroquine that attracted worldwide attention—prompting the suspension of multiple trials—after three ...

Three huge asteroids will be approaching Earth from June 6, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

Update: The study was retracted on June 4, 2020.  Original story below. Editors of a medical journal acknowledged ...

An experimental drug recently touted for its effectiveness against COVID-19 showed a limited benefit for more moderately ill ...

NASA and SpaceX have completed a historic launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, marking ...

The United States' cybersecurity agency is warning about Russian military hackers exploiting a critical software flaw that makes ...

NASA has scrubbed what would have been a historic launch of a SpaceX rocket from Kennedy Space Center ...

The city-size asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs to extinction came from ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has temporarily suspended testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to ...

A COVID-19 vaccine trial in the UK has only a 50 percent chance at success, down from earlier ...

Most COVID-19 patients are no longer infectious 11 days after developing symptoms of the deadly disease, according to ...

The antiviral drug remdesivir sped up recovery from COVID-19, but researchers said the drug requires a supplement and ...

Update: The study was retracted on June 4, 2020.  Original story below. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were linked with ...

The CCP virus was likely introduced to the Chinese wet market in Wuhan that was originally said to ...

A vaccine for the CCP virus being developed by British scientists could arrive in the United States as ...

New York's transit authority has launched a virus-busting pilot that uses a special kind of germicidal ultraviolet light ...

Scientists at the Army Research Laboratory may be on the verge of discovering new COVID-19 antibodies capable of ...