By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — An autopsy by the office of Mississippi’s state medical examiner concluded that a Black student found ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man who was unresponsive after riding a roller coaster at Universal Orlando Resort’s newest park died ...

New research shows how our warming world contributed to dangerous summer heat that impacted several million people in the U.S ...

We often wonder whether there are aliens on other planets but what if we ourselves are aliens on the planet we call home? Panspermia, the “controversial” theory that life “began elsewhere in space” ...

The landslide behind my neighbor’s backyard doesn’t exist—not according to the New York State landslide map or Greene ...

The federal government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases depends on a 2009 scientific determination. The Trump ...

“This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting,” Acting NASA ...

New research suggests that a mystery platinum signature found in Greenland’s ice may have come from a volcanic eruption in Iceland.

Scientists discovered "dark oxygen" produced by deep-sea polymetallic nodules deep below sea level, redefining our ...

Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters.

Although ‘steam worlds’ were first proposed about twenty years ago, they are now supported by observations. The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor around several sub-Neptunes, with ...