Science

Naomi McKinnon knew something was up, but she was not sure what. She went below deck for a minute, then rejoined her two crewmates on watch.Then it hit her. From horizon to...

When SpaceX next launches a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station, one of the astronauts aboard will be Russian.NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, announced on Friday that they...

WASHINGTON — On the day after what was left of his legislative agenda to fight climate change appeared to crash and burn in the Senate, President Biden flew to Saudi Arabia, ready...

The new James Webb Space Telescope can capture photographs not only of galaxies across the universe, but also of objects in our celestial backyard.NASA on Thursday released images of Jupiter, the largest...

WASHINGTON — First, he killed a plan that would have forced power plants to clean up their climate-warming pollution. Then, he shattered an effort to help consumers pay for electric vehicles. And,...

The spread of drug-resistant infections surged during the coronavirus pandemic, killing nearly 30,000 people in 2020 and upending much of the recent progress made in containing the spread of so-called superbugs, according...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Novavax, a biotechnology company in Maryland that received significant federal funding to produce the shot. The vaccine will be...

The universe was born in darkness 13.8 billion years ago, and even after the first stars and galaxies blazed into existence a few hundred million years later, these too stayed dark. Their...

There are probably a few things that come to mind when you think of farmers. To list a few: overalls, straw hats, tanned forearms; bails of hay, tractors, seeds. All very farmer-friendly....

I asked the heads of three trillion-tree organizations if anyone was keeping a global total of how many trees had been planted, or how many were still alive — whether we would,...