A NASA spacecraft is about to make the closest approach to the sun.

Two new perentie lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to be bred there.

Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilized mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home this year.

The federal government says that two endangered whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off Massachusetts and that one is likely to die from its injuries.

The last meteor shower of the year peaks a few days before Christmas.

A Japanese space startup says its second attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit had been aborted minutes after liftoff.

Scientists in China have almost finished building a massive underground detector to sniff out mysterious particles called neutrinos.

NASA's two stuck astronauts just got their space mission extended again.

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club.

New research suggests that Saturn's rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet.

A giant salamander that evolved on the supercontinent Pangaea and outlived the dinosaurs has been proposed for federal protection by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries.

A new study says Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago.

The global chemical weapons watchdog has opened an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Syria over concerns about the country’s stockpile of toxic chemicals in the wake of the overthrow of President Bashar Assad.

The Geminids are among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids.

About 87,000 people are being evacuated in a central Philippine region after a volcano erupted with a huge plume of ash and superhot streams of gas and debris hurtling down its slopes.

A surprising study of temperature-related deaths in Mexico upends conventional thinking about what age group is hit hardest by heat.

The most expensive dinosaur fossil ever discovered will be on view in New York starting this weekend.

The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a stretch of the West Coast — from Northern California to Oregon — before being canceled.

NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo.

NASA's two stuck astronauts have hit the six-month mark in space.

Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine.

A pair of European satellites has rocketed into orbit on a mission to create artificial solar eclipses.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a tech billionaire who performed the first private spacewalk to lead NASA.

As global warming fills the plankton-rich waters of New England with death traps for sea turtles, the number of stranded reptiles has multiplied over the last 20 years.

Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's rarest whale species.

British lawmakers have given initial approval to a bill that would help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales.

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago.

British lawmakers are expected to vote on a law proposed to help terminally ill adults end their lives.

Solar storms may produce faint auroras across the northern rim of the United States this Thanksgiving.

Scientists are using used fossilized feces and vomit from Poland to reconstruct how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth.

More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand have been safely returned to the ocean after conservation workers and residents helped to refloat them by lifting them on sheets.

Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months.

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize.

The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia has been released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore on a popular tourist beach.

A volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland is spewing lava from a fissure in its seventh eruption since December.

Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body’s estimated 37.2 trillion cells.

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought.

SpaceX has launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching it with giant mechanical arms.

Eagle lovers around the world who were crushed when the nest of a Minnesota pair and their chick collapsed on live video last year will get a when a new eagle camera goes live this week.

Authorities say four monkeys remain free nearly two weeks after a group of 43 escaped from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research.

Authorities say only six monkeys are still on the loose after dozens escaped earlier this month from a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research.

Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main plenary halls at the United Nations climate summit on what is traditionally their biggest protest day during the two-week talks.

New research confirms volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon billions of years ago.

Environmental advocates released reports Friday decrying fossil fuel industry influence at these climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, called COP29.

Authorities say Just eight monkeys remain free from the group who broke out of a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research.

The November supermoon will still be almost full when the Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend.

For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to get.

More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers this week announced that it was a new species of sea slug.

Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year.

Authorities say two monkeys have been returned to a South Carolina compound that breeds the animals for medical research.

Scientists can’t know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale warning signs.

Authorities say five more monkeys have been returned to a South Carolina compound that breeds the animals for medical research.

Astronomers say better catch this week's supermoon.

A digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica has been created using artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monument’s.

Authorities say more than half of the monkeys bred for medical research that escaped from a compound in South Carolina have been recovered unharmed.

Officials say one of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina has been recovered unharmed.

Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month won't say which one of them got sick.

Authorities say 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina have been spotted in the woods near a fence surrounding the site and that workers are using food to try to recapture them.

A police chief in South Carolina says there is no “almost no danger” to the public after 43 monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research.

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for centuries.

A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel, in what plant officials said was a step toward beginning the cleanup of hundreds of tons of melted fuel debris.

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after a six-month stay on China’s Tiangong space station.

Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency says that at least ten people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores.

Two sister meteor showers are already flashing across night skies — and will peak a week apart.

The deadly flooding in Valencia Spain is just the latest in a spate of climate extremes that seem to have shifted into overdrive, especially in rain-weary Europe.

The Associated Press has learned that two humpback whales were found dead and another seriously injured this year in huge nets used to collect krill for fishmeal and human dietary supplements near Antarctica.

Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known fossil of a tadpole that wriggled around 160 million years ago.

A Chinese space ship carrying a three-person crew has docked with its orbiting space station as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space.

It's as if Mother Nature shut off the rain faucet in the United States in October.

NASA says a recently discovered comet has broken apart as it approached the sun.

China says all systems are ready to launch the next crew to its orbiting space station on the latest mission to make the country a major space power.

NASA says an astronaut has been released from the hospital after returning from space.

A special kind of beauty contest featuring bats kicked off in the lead-up to Halloween.

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a space station mission that lasted almost eight months.

The red-cockaded woodpecker, an iconic bird in southeastern forests, has recovered enough of its population to be downlisted from an endangered species to a threatened one.

The world is on a path to get 1.8 degrees Celsius (3.2 Fahrenheit) warmer than it is now, a United Nations report said Thursday.

Officials in Hong Kong say they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time on a remote, uninhabited island that’s part of a geopark.

Scientists say a giant fish in the Mekong River thought to be extinct has been spotted three times in recent years.

Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria that make up algae.

Scientists have pinpointed how sperm and egg fuse together across the animal kingdom, from fish to people.

The Orionid meteor shower is about to peak.

Scientists say a celestial object discovered decades ago is actually twins orbiting each other.

October's supermoon is the closest of the year and it's teaming up with a comet for a rare stargazing two-for-one.

Space weather experts say expect to see more northern lights in unusual places as the sun continues to sizzle.

Scientists have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor.

China has made great strides in exploring space in recent years, rocketing astronauts to its own space station and bringing back rocks from the moon.

Hong Kong’s oldest zoo is seeking answers in a monkey medical mystery after nine animals died in two days, including three members of a critically endangered species.

A California school has planted a tree that’s out of this world.

A NASA spacecraft has blasted off on a quest to explore Jupiter's moon Europa and reveal whether its hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.

Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed a Viking Age burial ground containing some 50 “exceptionally well-preserved” skeletons.

SpaceX has pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket.

A massive NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa.

The latest solar storm has triggered northern lights farther south than normal including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City.

Scientists say human-caused climate change intensified deadly Hurricane Milton’s rainfall by 20 to 30% and strengthened its winds by about 10%.

Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google’s California headquarters to celebrate.

With its mighty strength and its dangerous path, Hurricane Milton has powered into a very rare threat that is flirting with experts’ worst fears.

Twin brothers who were born conjoined recently celebrated their first birthday after undergoing successful separation surgery.

Space weather forecasters say a severe solar storm heading to Earth could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes.