Science

An orange-yellow orchid that has eluded botanists for almost two decades has been rediscovered in the state of Massachusetts. The rare, endangered plant has been the subject of speculation since ...

WASHINGTON—A nuclear energy venture founded by Bill Gates said Thursday it hopes to build small advanced nuclear power ...

TOKYO — Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to ...

To everyone trying to beat the summer heat by taking cool dips in your local outdoor creek, beware: ...

The very first male “murder hornet” found in America was captured late July near Custer, Washington—the same place ...

The Trump administration approved an oil and gas leasing program within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), a 1.56-million-acre swath ...

JOHANNESBURG—The grounded Japanese ship that leaked tons of oil near protected areas off the Indian Ocean island nation ...

If you ever see something like a beautiful pink orchid start to "walk" among the leaves, chances are ...

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

LONDON—Four bones found on a beach on the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast, belong to a ...

LONDON—An amateur treasure-hunter has uncovered one of the most significant Bronze Age hoards ever found in Scotland, including ...

Thousands of light years away, there's a "space butterfly" colored with brilliant blues and clouds of purple and ...

For years, experts have predicted impending catastrophe from climate change. Thirty-one years ago, a senior U.N. environmental official ...

NASA has announced it is revising some unofficial nicknames used to refer to cosmic objects as it joins ...

In the Shenyang City of Liaoning Province, a huge lightning bolt struck a high-rise building from top to ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law a landmark conservation bill that addresses the backlog of infrastructure ...

U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX's new Crew ...

An Indian tourist had a dramatic encounter while on safari when he came face to face with an ...

Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, has puzzled the world for centuries, yet scientists think they have finally solved at ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built—a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills, and ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back an amazing photo showing summertime on Saturn. Hubble captured the image ...

President Donald Trump announced on July 29 that export term limits for liquified natural gas (LNG) to non-free trade ...

A scientific dive team explored a little-studied underwater phenomenon known as a “blue hole,” a sort of sunken ...

A German study has found that dogs are able to detect COVID-19 from the scent of a patient's saliva. ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—With eight successful Mars landings, NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover. The spacecraft ...

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

MOSCOW—Russian scientists are working to retrieve the well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth, which has some ligaments still ...