In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and — ideally — keep human travelers safe. But it’s not intelligent enough to do that ...

Clinical trial results show an experimental drug lowered tau levels in the brain and slowed some memory loss, but the data ...

Atmospheric rivers bring heavy rain and floods, but if they don’t come around, it could mean drought. A new global map ...

The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the ...

Researchers exploring the origins of left-right dominance in the brain found no innately better motor skills on either side.

Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as ...

Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets. But — until now — they’ve ...

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the ...

The gold standard of scientific review, peer review by researchers’ colleagues, is in crisis. AI might offer a solution but ...

There’s never been a good method to check for violations of the Outer Space Treaty’s prohibition of nuclear weapons in space.

The Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s latest exhibit, “From These Lands,” connects visitors with America’s natural history ...

The ambitious expedition aims to fill data gaps about the glacier-sea boundary to predict when the world might tip into a ...