American start-up company Rocket Lab has launched a massive, highly reflective sphere akin to a disco ball, into orbit. The object launched...
Chinese scientists have used the cloning technique that successfully produced Dolly the sheep twenty years ago to clone monkeys, surmounting a technical...
Once upon a very long time ago, Australia may not have been very far from North America, geological evidence shows. Rocks recently...
Researchers have identified the lethal toxin that centipedes use to disable, kill and eat prey that are much larger than them. When...
The current government shutdown will cause further delays in the set static fire schedule of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the company said....
The Two Brothers mummies on display at Manchester University are actually only half-brothers, researchers found. An analysis of DNA evidence answers questions...
NASA has removed American astronaut Jeanette Epps from the roster of crew members leaving for the next mission to the International Space...
This could be the first year since 2011 that American astronauts leave for the International Space Station in a spacecraft made in...
Scientists announced that there once was a bird-like dinosaur the size of a crow that had colorful, iridescent feathers in northeastern China....
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is getting warmer due to climate change, causing more green turtles to be born female. This, in turn,...
One of humanity’s biggest, most mysterious and baffling questions has been whether or not there is life outside of Earth. Now, scientists...
There are stick figures on Mars – a discovery that was elicited much excitement back here on Earth. NASA’s Curiosity rover, which...
A stone shrine archeologists found in the middle of a pond near a volcano in Mexico is believed to have been a...
New evidence unearthed in Alaska suggests that all Native Americans can trace their lineage back to one single migration event that took...
This year could see an increase in the number of huge, devastating earthquakes, according to research. But as the ability to predict...
The doll company American Girl will release its latest “Girl of the Year” on January 1: Luciana Vega, an 11-year-old girl from...
A species of giant octopus has apparently been hiding in plain sight for decades, surprising scientists – and the rest of the...
Starfish, which had undergone a crisis four years ago, are making a comeback on the West Coast by growing in number. In...
A mysterious fireball streaked across the sky from Massachusetts to Maine, sending Americans into a tizzy. The object was most possibly a...
Men may feel that being eco-friendly is “feminine” behavior, which is why they’re less inclined to participate in green endeavors, a report...