A triceratops skeleton that once greeted visitors at a Wyoming museum is heading to an online auction as dinosaur prices keep soaring.

Officials in Florida say an injured mother manatee and her calf have been rescued from a river and taken to SeaWorld Orlando for rehabilitation.

NASA is revamping its Artemis moon landing program.

A blood-red moon will soon grace the skies for a total lunar eclipse.

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic analysis.

NASA's Mike Fincke has identified himself as the astronaut whose medical condition prompted the space agency's first medical evacuation.

A new study uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court.

NASA is moving its grounded Artemis moon rocket from the launch pad back to its hangar for more repairs.

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Meteorologists say the powerful nor’easter smacking the Northeast is a classic, record-setting blizzard.

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a system for approving customized drugs and medical treatments for patients with rare or hard-to-treat diseases.

A horse's signature whinny comes from a combination of whistling and singing.

Six planets will be visible in the night sky at the end of February, and most can be seen with the naked eye.

NASA's giant moon rocket is headed back to the hangar for more repairs.

NASA’s new moon rocket has suffered another setback, with astronauts’ lunar trip now off until spring.

NASA aims to send astronauts to the moon in March after acing the latest rocket fueling test.

NASA's new boss is blasting Boeing and the space agency for Starliner's botched flight that left two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station.

NASA has taken another crack at fueling its giant moon rocket after leaks halted the initial dress rehearsal.

The Food and Drug Administration plans to drop its longtime standard of requiring two rigorous studies for new drug approvals.

A new study shows hot, dry and windy weather that fuels extreme wildfires has nearly tripled worldwide in 45 years.

The International Space Station is back to full strength with the arrival of four new astronauts.

Phoenix is believed to be home to the world's largest colony of rosy-faced lovebirds outside of their native Africa.

The replacements for the astronauts involved in NASA's first medical evacuation are on their way to the International Space Station.

California photographer and conservationist Krystle Hickman is on a quest to document hundreds of species of native bees, which are under threat by climate change and habitat loss, some of it caused by the more recognizable and agriculturally valued honey bee.

Thailand has begun using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try curb a growing problem where human and animal populations encroach on each other.

The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam.”.

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests.

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: whether gene editing might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol.

U.S. births slightly decreased in 2025.

A new study reveals that cancer patients diagnosed during the early COVID-19 pandemic had worse short-term survival rates than a similar group before the pandemic.

Elon Musk is bringing the same revolutionary thinking that helped him upend the car industry to the data center business with promises this week to put up to a million new satellites in the sky.

NASA's long-awaited moonshot with astronauts is off until at least March because of leaking hydrogen fuel.

Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before a massive planned initial public offering for the business later this year.

NASA has run into a leak while fueling its new moon rocket in one final make-or-break test before sending astronauts on a lunar fly-around.

A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, which earlier than scientists previously thought.

A Japanese research vessel has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, Japan’s government announced Monday as the country seeks to reduce its reliance on China.

Researchers at Washington State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are using collar cams to study a remote population of grizzly bears on Alaska's North Slope.

NASA has delayed astronauts' upcoming trip to the moon because of near-freezing temperatures expected at the launch site.

Winter has its fans, but even those who enjoy playing in the snow probably dislike the chore of clearing up after a big storm that dumps several inches or even feet of snow and ice.

Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident are marking that tragic day 40 years ago.

The Trump administration is ending the use of abortion-derived fetal tissue in research funded by the National Institutes of Health.

A new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track space junk by tuning into their sonic booms.

The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station say a portable ultrasound machine came in “super handy" during the medical crisis.

Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years.

A new study finds that warming temperatures are causing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier, threatening some species with extinction by century's end.

A surfer had minor injuries from being bitten by a shark in the fourth attack off the coast of Australia’s most populous state in three days.

NASA's giant new moon rocket is finally at the launch pad.

A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks’ teeth and found that future generations of sharks could have weaker teeth because of changing ocean chemistry.

Scientists have uncovered mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia.

An ailing astronaut is back on Earth.

An astronaut in need of medical care is on the way back to Earth.

Scientists have inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores in an Antarctic vault.

Doctors fear this week’s unprecedented changes to federal vaccine recommendations will stoke vaccine hesitancy even more, pose challenges for pediatricians and parents and ultimately lead to more illness and death among children.

U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the United Nations climate framework marks a significant escalation of anti-climate policy.

A new study finds that some gifted dogs can learn the names of new toys by eavesdropping.

In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue.

Guides who take tourists to enjoy the striking views of Sicily’s Mount Etna are up in arms over tougher restrictions imposed by local authorities after a round of eruptions at the giant volcano in recent weeks.

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will propose a drinking water limit for perchlorate, a chemical in certain explosives.

It’s been a year of heartbreak and chronic worry since the most destructive wildfires in the Los Angeles area’s history scorched neighborhoods and displaced tens of thousands of people.

The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will compete for dominance in January skies.

Scientists from Mexico’s National Autonomous University have created the first three-dimensional image of the Popocatépetl volcano's interior.

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the hottest years ever recorded.

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026.

Doctors say just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus.

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky.

A paraplegic engineer has become the first wheelchair user in space, blasting off with Blue Origin.

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten a rare peek at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery.

Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all.

Police have intensified their search for a suspect in the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor Nuno F.

A wildlife photographer has discovered one of the oldest and largest collections of dinosaur footprints in an Italian national park.

The nation’s leading doctors groups are in a standoff with federal health officials over vaccines.

Billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman is back before the Senate after being yanked and then renominated by President Donald Trump for NASA's top job.

Researchers who examined climate change’s potential effect on the global economy say data errors led them to slightly overstate an expected drop in income over the next 25 years.

A beloved albino alligator named Claude at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has died at age 30.

Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals that are seeing their numbers decline due to the exotic pet trade.

The last supermoon of the year will soon shine in December skies.

The European Space Agency has announced a significant budget increase for the next three years, reaching nearly $26 billion.

A U.S.-Russian crew of three has started a mission at the International Space Station after their launch on a Russian spacecraft.

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.

Cannabis use among young adults has reached historic levels, with nearly 18 million Americans using marijuana daily in 2022.

As daily cannabis use rises to historic levels in the U.S., some longtime users are finding it harder to quit.

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China has launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China's Tiangong space station.

President Donald Trump is directing the federal government to share scientific data and use artificial intelligence to accelerate discovery, including streamlining the nation’s electric grid.

Boeing and NASA have agreed to keep astronauts off the company's next Starliner flight.

A volcano has erupted in northern Ethiopia, sending ash plumes across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman.

Researchers have completed a full accounting of water uses and losses in the Rio Grande-Bravo basin as it faces severe shortages throughout its range in the United States and Mexico.

Sometimes our immune system runs amok and attacks the organ that makes us “us” — the brain.

NASA is unveiling close-up pictures of the interstellar comet that's making a quick one-and-done tour of our solar system.

A museum dedicated to the Shroud of Turin has opened at the Christ Cathedral campus in Garden Grove, California.

It may sound surprising but kids can get diseases like lupus and arthritis, too, when their immune system mistakenly attacks their own body.

Mimmo, a bottlenose dolphin, has been delighting tourists in Venice with his acrobatic flips for months.

The results of the new study, published last month in the journal Subterranean Biology, spread rapidly online due to the striking images of the giant 1,140-square-foot spider web, a carpet-thick sprawl that stretches along a narrow passage wall inside Sulfur Cave, which extends into Albania from its entrance in Greece.

Three Chinese astronauts have returned from their nation's space station after a nine-day delay.

Blue Origin has launched its huge New Glenn rocket with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars.

There's a new frontier in treating autoimmune diseases.

A Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials has pleaded guilty.

The White House's list of 37 donors to President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom project includes crypto billionaires, powerful financiers, tobacco companies, tech giants, media companies, longtime Republican donors and several of the president’s neighbors in Florida.