Science

TOKYO—It can't dribble, let alone slam dunk, but Toyota's basketball robot hardly ever misses a free throw or a 3-pointer. The 207-centimeter (six-foot, 10-inch)-tall machine made five of eight 3-point ...

NEW DELHI—An Indian rocket on Monday, April 1, placed domestic and foreign satellites in three different orbits on ...

NASA's planet-hunting TESS mission has only been surveying the sky since July, but it's already making incredible discoveries. In January, three ...

NEW DELHI—India expects space debris from its anti-satellite weapons launch to burn out in less than 45 days, ...

PARIS, France—The dolphins’ bodies were horribly mutilated, the fins cut off. But what shocked French marine researchers wasn’t ...

NASA is offering volunteers $18,500 to stay in bed, watch TV, and read books for two months to ...

SILVER SPRING, Md.— Government medical advisers said on Monday, March 25, that it’s too soon to ban a ...

Thousands of years ago, the ancient Egyptians sent society's wealthiest and most prominent members into the afterlife in ...

WASHINGTON—A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is ...

Chinese scientists have created a liquid metal that morphs and bends like the T-1000 killer robot from Hollywood's The ...

Hundreds of thousands of people travel north from all over the world to get a glimpse of the ...

A massive solar storm may have slammed the Earth about 2,600 years ago, according to scientists, saying that ...

Officials in Pennsylvania said they recently X-rayed a nearly 2,000-year-old mummy discovered in Peru that was locked in ...

The lunar calendar has influenced human culture since time immemorial. And 2019 will  be no exception. This year, ...

Researchers said they’re puzzled by rocks found on a small island between Madagascar and the east coast of ...

Hurtling towards the earth 30 times faster than a rifle bullet, a 1,400-ton fireball exploded with the energy ...

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

When an anonymous farmer in Michigan purchased his property roughly 30 years ago, the previous owner claimed that ...

If bringing back extinct species was the stuff of sci-fi novels and movie sets, then most people would ...

NEW YORK—An international group of scientists and ethicists on March 13 called for a temporary global ban on ...

Evidence of an unusually huge solar storm that battered the Earth, showering it in radioactive particles more than ...

Forget everything you've learned about men and Mars. Chances are the first person to land on the red ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—An unmanned capsule from Elon Musk's SpaceX splashed into the Atlantic Ocean on March 8, successfully ...

Police are investigating the death of an iconic 80-year-old crocodile that has left an Australian town reeling and ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Archaeologists confirmed a long-time suspicion of historians and say that the famed Alcatraz prison was built over ...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa.—The national park on the site where George Washington and the struggling Continental Army endured a ...

A Mayan “ritual cave” that was untouched for 1,000 years was discovered by Mexican archaeologists. The cave system, ...