In a critical maneuver Thursday, the mission successfully deployed its two science orbiters—beginning the final phases of its ...

Isabel Gil is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist covering science, conservation and the environment.

It started when the pygmy raccoon dove into the wrong trash bin—not the bin known by her family for its tasty food scraps but ...

The Trump administration has so far been silent on flu, COVID and RSV vaccine guidance for the coming season, even as these ...

The world is set to blow past the Paris Agreement’s longtime threshold “within the next few years,” according to a new report ...

A recent CDC analysis says that, between 2016 and 2024, the rate of high blood pressure among pregnant women rose by 73 ...

After one of the worst natural disasters in the region’s history, attention is turning to the looming super El Niño ...

This summer an island in Canada’s Williston Lake mysteriously appeared, vanished and then reappeared 30 kilometers away. As ...

Giving old mice semaglutide—commonly sold as Wegovy or Ozempic—extends their lifespan remarkably, a new study finds ...

Scientists are baffled after discovering a weird decagon-shaped wave in the atmosphere of the planet Saturn. The ten-sided phenomenon appears to have formed over the planet's south pole recently, but ...

It happened in a dark, sealed tank of extremely cold liquid, in a cavern where miners once chiseled gold from the walls.

Newly discovered ‘demon cave fish’ hid out in Alabama military installation for 40 years Scientists named this oddball ...