Over eight out of 10 Americans support the mandatory vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) for children in public schools, a...
The lost continent of Atlantis may be a myth long pursued by many adventure-seekers, but scientists have found something similar – and...
Scientists have come up with an impressive new robot, in a shape comic book fans and moviegoers everywhere will instantly recognize –...
Growing human organs inside animals has long been a dream of scientists who want to provide hearts, lungs and kidneys that are...
Google’s X Prize Foundation has chosen five private companies to compete for the Google X Lunar Prize, in a growing effort to...
Japan launched its first military communications satellite on Tuesday. The project is meant to boost the country’s Self Defence Forces’ broadband capacity...
Over ten years ago, scientists were surprised to discover that the most abundant kind of meteorites they had collected on Earth and...
Daphnis, Saturn’s wavemaker moon, was captured in a rare photo by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Cassini made one of its passes around the...
NASA is getting a jump-start on sending astronauts to Mars by sending six carefully selected scientists into a man-made dome that reconstructs...
The nighttime eruption of a fiery volcano in Colima, Mexico, was caught on video via a webcam located beyond the five-mile exclusion...
The Namib Desert has a unique feature that has puzzled scientists for many years: “fairy circles” that come and go on the...
There is an “extinction crisis” facing many of the world’s animals, and the latest to feel the pinch are primates. Research indicated...
A female zebra shark at Australia’s Reef HQ aquarium has stunned scientists by producing live babies without a male. The shark, Leonie,...
One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of all time is the case of D.B. Cooper – the man who made infamous history...
Japan’s ambitions to advance their presence in space have ground to a sudden halt after an experimental rocket the country launched crashed...
The ruby seadragon is one of the most mysterious and most elusive sea creatures scientists have identified, so it’s no wonder there’s...
A private company has announced that it has amassed the funds necessary to fly to the moon, quite literally. Moon Express is...
Scientists have managed to use a flash of light to turn on the predatory instincts in mice, allowing them to suddenly pounce...
Menopause is an eventuality for females, and is a fact of life. But until now, scientists have not managed to fully explain...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station went spacewalking to attach new batteries to the spacecraft’s power grid. Commander Shane Kimbrough and Peggy...