UK bluefin tuna comeback shows nature can recover, says WWF
Image source, Henry Kirkwood/WWF-UKImage caption, Bluefin tuna have returned in significant numbers to the waters off Co...
Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90
Image source, GettyImage caption, Hamilton after she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016ByClaire Keena...
Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
'Things are going super well at 39A': SpaceX gearing up to launch Starship from Florida for 1st time
SpaceX is working hard to get historic Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ready for launches of the company's Starsh...
What Experts Want to Know About the Russia Plague Scare
Missing details about the death of a lab worker, including the cause, are worrying scientists.
The Draconid meteor shower peaks tonight before bedtime. Here's how to see it
The Draconid meteor shower reaches peak activity on the evening of Oct. 8 in the beautifully dark skies ahead of the Oct...
Scientists discover the genetic secrets that may have helped Jonathan the tortoise live to 194 years old
DNA samples from Jonathan the 194-year-old tortoise reveal gene variants and epigenetic changes that could contribute to...
Jonathan the Giant Tortoise Is 194 Years Old. He Just Had His Genome Sequenced.
Scientists have sequenced his genome for the first time, hoping the world’s oldest land animal can offer clues into the ...
On this day in space! Oct. 7, 2002: NASA launches space shuttle Atlantis to deliver backbone of the ISS on STS-112 mission
On Oct. 7, 2002, the space shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-112 to build up the backbo...
'It looks like a chimera' — 168 million years ago, a strange platypus-like mammal relative lived in China alongside dinosaurs
A predatory mammal-like animal from the Jurassic seems to have characteristics of both a platypus and an otter.
1,000-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on Earth
New simulations suggest that the perplexing Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) repeatedly emerges in the Red Planet's ski...
The moon hides Jupiter in spectacular photographs of October's lunar occultation
See the best photos of the Oct. 6 lunar occultation of Jupiter.