A NASA researcher in planetary sciences explains how he discovered a new meteor shower linked to a disintegrating asteroid.

Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.

A genomic analysis of dozens of ancient Korean skeletons revealed a special "sacrificial caste" of people. About 1,500 years ...

Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an ...

NASA is gearing up to send astronauts back to the lunar environment for the first time in nearly 55 years. We've broken the ...

It's a running joke that a cure for type 1 diabetes is only five years away and has been for 50 years, but new stem cell trials and immune drugs hint that we're closer than ever to a functional cure ...

CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why ...

Once described by a 16th-century anatomist as the "shameful member," the clitoris has historically been ignored in research ...

Doctors reported a highly unusual case of parasitic fly infection in a woman in Greece. When you purchase through links on ...

China 's significant reduction in air pollution may have had unexpected benefits in the Arctic: A new study shows that it ...

A new study finds that in low-oxygen environments, red blood cells absorb more glucose and convert it into a molecule that ...

Among the fossil finds were bilateral worm-like animals that may have anchored themselves to the seafloor, early comb jellies ...