Nearly 30% of US adults admit to lying about or exaggerating their symptoms to get antibiotics from doctors, survey finds
In two new surveys, U.S. adults report lying to their doctors and their children's doctors about symptoms in hopes of be...
'Star Trek's' William Shatner and George Takei honor the death of Walter Koenig
'Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course.'
On this day in space! Oct. 30, 1964: NASA's weird Lunar Landing Research Vehicle takes 1st test flight to help Apollo astronauts land on the moon
On October 30, 1964, NASA's Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, or LLRV, took to the skies for the first time. Here's why it...
Ghostly Cat's Head Nebula haunts the cosmos | Space photo of the day for Oct. 30, 2026
Just in time for Halloween, we have new, ghostly views of the Cat's Eye Nebula haunting the outer reaches of the cosmos.
Watch Virgin Galactic's new 'Delta-class' space plane take to the skies for the 1st time (video)
Virgin Galactic's first "Delta-class" space plane, the newly named Apeiron, lifted off for the first time on Thursday (O...
China's secretive space plane is flying over the US this week — here's how to see it for yourself
Early risers across the U.S. could catch a glimpse of China's mysterious Shenlong spacecraft with the naked eye.
Could AI ever build itself? Scientists map the road to the 'last AI built by humans.'
Researchers hope recursive self-improvement could tackle the skyrocketing costs of developing advanced AI models. But is...
Think Halloween is scary? This scorched alien world is a real-life cosmic horror story
Earth would be terrifying if we celebrated Halloween every 11 hours, a possibility on a super-Earth investigated by the ...
Dozens of Headless Skeletons Pose a Macabre Mystery
Mass graves found at a Stone Age farming settlement in Slovakia have researchers baffled about the details — including t...
Scary Ghost Stories From New York Times Archives
From haunted zoo cages to ghostly bar owners, here are five stories from our archives that will make you shiver, or mayb...
Hazardous driving conditions for Friday as fog warning issued by Met Office
Image source, BBC Weather Watchers / GSDMARKByChris FawkesLead Weather PresenterPublished26 minutes agoThick fog has for...
Attenborough-backed appeal secures £30m estate
Image source, The Wildlife TrustsImage caption, The Rothbury Estate, in Northumberland, covers a swathe of woodland and ...