A beloved bald eagle who gained popularity after incubating a rock is mourned after dying from head trauma sustained during violent storms in Missouri last week.

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations.

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

A NASA spacecraft will make its second close brush with the sun.

The Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia has erupted, sending an ash column 26,000 feet high and prompting authorities to expand the danger zone around the volcano.

Residents of the Tuscan beach enclave of Orbetello are seeking a state of emergency declaration to help combat an invasion of midges that are keeping people indoors and threatening businesses catering to tourists.

The most recent eruption episode of Hawaii’s most active volcano has ended after sending fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the sky.

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction.

An experimental treatment appears to postpone Alzheimer's symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease at a young age.

Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls short of any endurance record.

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.

In Texas, where midwifery regulations vary, it’s essential to ensure that the midwife you select aligns with your medical needs and birth preferences.

A patient has died while taking a closely watched gene therapy for muscular dystrophy.

Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms since it was first detected in North America in late 2021.

South African officials say a member of a research team at an isolated Antarctica base has been put under psychological evaluation after he allegedly assaulted and sexually harassed colleagues.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months.

Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji.

A new study out Monday finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef is no less carbon-intensive than industrial beef.

NASA's stuck astronauts are heading home now that a replacement crew has arrived at the International Space Station.

It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission.

A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts.

Reductions to federal support for research at universities and other institutions under President Donald Trump are dimming young scientists’ prospects, cutting off pathways to career-building projects and graduate programs.

The replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station.

A judge finds that Virginia law does not consider frozen embryos to be property that can be divided up in a partition lawsuit.

Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials found only in Australia.

College students, rocket scientists and math enthusiasts around the world are celebrating Pi Day.

More than 100 million people in the U.S. are in the path of an expected massive March storm starting Friday.

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Universities across the U.S. have announced hiring freezes due to the risk of federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration.

A new report says at least 112 North American bird species have lost more than half their populations in the past 50 years.

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $5 a dozen.

A launch pad problem has forced a flight delay to replace NASA's two stuck astronauts.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced nearly three dozen deregulatory moves that he said would spur the U.S. economy by rolling back rules that have unfairly burdened industry.

A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at Mount Spurr in the next few weeks or months has increased.

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old.

The Trump Administration's quest to “Make America Healthy Again” is targeting ultraprocessed foods.

A National Institutes of Health study aims to find out whether ultraprocessed foods lead people to eat more.

NASA's newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before.

The Trump administration is canceling studies about ways to improve vaccine trust and access.

An erupting Hawaii volcano is shooting fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the sky.

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 years ago.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers urge the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in West Coast forests in coming decades.

An American biochemist whose research has helped scientists make inroads on treating coronavirus and HIV has won this year’s Wolf Prize, a major Israeli award in the arts and sciences.

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too.

Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals.

Researchers, doctors, their patients and supporters are venturing out of labs, hospitals and offices across the country to stand up to what they call an attack on life-saving science by the Trump administration.

The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle has returned to Earth after circling the world for 434 days.

A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red across the Western Hemisphere.

A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole.

SpaceX has blown up another Starship mega rocket on a test flight.

A privately owned lunar lander has touched down near the moon's south pole.

A new study finds the number of butterflies has dropped 22% since 2000, a new study finds.

Ripple effects of the Trump administration's crackdown on U.S. medical research promise to reach every corner of America.

A federal judge is preventing the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding.

NASA is switching off two science instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft to save power.

A tall fountain of lava spewed from a volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island again.

A new study says early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago.

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health is promising to help restore trust in medical research.

The recovery of the smallest subspecies of gray wolf in North America is inching forward.

NASA's two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in space.

Extinction is still forever.

Last-minute problems have delayed the latest launch of SpaceX's mega rocket Starship.

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.

A private lunar lander has touched down on the moon, delivering a drill and other experiments for NASA.

Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers.

Chip Ganassi Racing on Friday said it has partnered on a strategic research collaboration with OpenAI — a deal that makes the two-time reigning IndyCar championship winning team the first to bring in a partner from the artificial intelligence field.

A new government report says that rates for precancerous lesions decreased about 80% among younger women who were screened for cervical cancer.

As President Donald Trump's administration looks to reverse a cornerstone finding that climate change endangers human health and welfare, scientists say they need to look around because it’s obvious how bad global warming is and how its getting worse.

Katy Perry and Gayle King are headed to space with Jeff Bezos' fiancee Lauren Sanchez.

A private company is launching another lunar lander toward the moon.

A 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 slaying of a Hawaii teenager has agreed to be extradited from Utah to face a murder charge.

A report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog says Iran has accelerated its production of near weapons-grade uranium as tensions between Tehran and Washington rise after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Three tropical cyclones are spinning in the South Pacific, an occurrence that scientists say is unusual.

Seven planets grace the sky at the end of February in what’s known as a planetary parade, though some will be difficult to spot.

As with most viral trends, 'parade' might be a bit of a stretch.

Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid.

“What is a mouth guard” and “Sleep Apnea” are trending on Google search as Americans are trying to find ways to get better sleep.

Scientists from the University of Athens monitoring an earthquake swarm near the island of Santorini say the phenomenon is in “gradual decline” nearly a month after the multiple tremors started.

A new and massive study finds that climate change is melting the world’s mountain glaciers faster than ever.

Kilauea volcano is shooting lava into the air once again in Hawaii.

Health care facilities in Utah would be required to let patients bring their own blood or choose their own donor for medical procedures under legislation gaining momentum in Utah.

The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump’s broad cuts because they were involved in the government’s response to the ongoing bird flu outbreak that has devastated egg and poultry farms over the past three years.

Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing more than 150 false killer whales that stranded on a remote beach on Australia’s island state of Tasmania.

Eight green sea turtles stunned by the cold during a rare snowfall in Florida have been released back into the Atlantic Ocean.

Why did humans start speaking.

Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, zebras and dozens of other taxidermy animals will move to new homes after concerns about arsenic exposure forced the closure of the South Dakota museum where they had been displayed for decades.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin is cutting 10% of its workforce.

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point on America’s winter of repeated polar vortex invasions starting this weekend.

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes rush to track its course.

Mudslides are dangerous torrents that are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows.

Swiss aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard is developing a plane powered by liquid hydrogen after a much-hyped flight in 2015 that used sunlight to travel around the world.

Work to give London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces of the city’s origins almost 2,000 years ago.

Federal health agencies have restored several webpages and datasets, following a judge’s order to bring back public access to information that had been removed to comply with a presidential executive order.

A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea has sniffed out the most energetic ghost particle yet.