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.

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

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.

NASA's two stuck astronauts may end up back on Earth a little sooner than planned.

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two weeks near Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini.

President Donald Trump says he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they “don’t work” and don’t last very long.

The global chemical maker Bayer is backing an expanded effort to shield itself from lawsuits alleging its popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer.

Nearly 200 nations faced a Monday deadline to file what the United Nations’ climate chief calls “among the most important policy documents governments will produce this century."

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy.

Two rare black wolves have been spotted on camera crossing a stream in a Polish forest.

A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has visited earthquake-struck Santorini, as the Aegean island imposed more precautionary measures amid intense seismic activity.

A man described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch in his Sydney backyard.

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe.

Scientists say they’ve cracked the code for boiling the perfect egg.

Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini because of the hundreds of undersea earthquakes that have shaken the resort island for nearly a week.

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.

What do a wedding necklace, Polish savory dumplings and a photo of Hungary’s first astronaut have in common.

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.

Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives.

President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the far side.

Red wolves once ranged far and wide across the U_S_, helping them earn the nickname “America's wolf.”.

The mayor of Santorini says that the hundreds of earthquakes that have rattled Greek islands on the Aegean Sea are a “seismic swarm” and could continue for weeks before eventually diminishing.

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as federal officials move to extend protections for the beloved pollinator.

Samoa’s top health official has denounced as “a complete lie” remarks that Robert F.

Repeated earthquakes are rattling Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini.

The popular Greek holiday island of Santorini is taking emergency measures in response to intense seismic activity.

America’s national bird, the bald eagle, is having a moment.

A series of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini have led authorities to shut down schools, dispatch rescue teams with sniffer dogs and sent instructions to residents including a request to drain their swimming pools.

A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington.

The unsolved death of a teenager in 1977 haunted students and staff at Honolulu's McKinley High School for nearly half a century.

India doubled its tiger population in a little over a decade by protecting the big cats from poaching and habitat loss, ensuring they have enough prey, reducing human-wildlife conflict, and increasing communities’ living standards near tiger areas.

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.

NASA's two stuck astronauts are taking their first spacewalk together, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in.

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032.

An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far south as St. Augustine suffering from a condition known as cold stunning.

Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to environmental changes.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.

A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier.

A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires.

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The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

An Alabama woman is thriving a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants.

Officials say they have recaptured the final four monkeys who escaped two months ago from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research.

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight.

Taiwan plans to cull up to 120,000 green iguanas, with supporters urging humane methods to bring down the animal's population, which is wreaking havoc on the island's agricultural sector.

Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like chirping birds in an unexpected place.

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren't human.

U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration in an inauguration speech that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed social media posts on Tuesday by New Zealanders, who said the achievement belonged to a pioneering scientist revered in his homeland.

Flooded cornfields near the Tennessee River in northern Alabama are a paradise for birders who flock to see tens of thousands of migrating sandhill cranes every winter.

About half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure and too few have it under control.

Emails and videos of burned buildings in Los Angeles versus those still standing have been flying back and forth among architects, builders and fire safety specialists around the world.

IMSA arranged for 27 high school students who excel in STEM programs to come to the speedway to educate the teens on how many opportunities exist in motorsports for those interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Disabled scientists are trying to make research labs and fieldwork more accessible.

SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean.

Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s called a planetary parade.

SpaceX has caught its Starship rocket back at the pad following liftoff.

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life.

One of NASA's two stuck astronauts is getting a change of scenery.

Blue Origin has launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight.

Officials at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are bracing for crowds eager to get a glimpse of lava fountaining from an eruption.

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage.

A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists.

SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business up there.

A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida and its manatee population.

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant have been dumped ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to stop them before they destroy more neighborhoods.

Researchers have used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru.

The National Weather Service’s Los Angeles page screams ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ in hot pink letters against a gray background.

New research suggests that Americans' risk for developing dementia over a lifetime may be higher than previously thought.