Want to fly to the moon and help build a permanent lunar base.

Want to fly to the moon and help build a permanent lunar base.

A new study suggests people were using cannabis for psychoactive purposes at least 2,800 years ago.

One of NASA's premier space telescopes has plunged to Earth, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe's biggest explosions.

A federal judge has granted a government motion to dismiss all charges against a Russian-born scientist who was accused of smuggling frog embryos into the United States.

A NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower.

Generations of fishermen have come to Montauk, New York, to fish for striped bass, but the fish are in the midst of a decline.

Striped bass are in decline on the East Coast and fishermen and scientists are in a race to save the iconic sport fish.

During the peak of the 2025 Los Angeles fires, approximately 7 million residents were exposed to airborne lead concentrations over 24 hours that exceeded 80 times the normal background level, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.

Food and Drug Administration staffers had little input on the Trump administration's decision that eases access to peptide drugs favored by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That’s according to people familiar with the policy’s development who were interviewed by The Associated Press.

The conventional wisdom in Florida is that if you see a body of water, assume there is a gator in it. But some bodies of water have more than others — quite a few more.

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King tides are dramatically reshaping parts of Volusia County’s coastline, pushing sand around and leaving many beaches bare — and the worst may not be over yet. Powerful waves have created steep drop-offs along the shoreline, with little to no buffer remaining between the water and seawalls in some areas. Volusia County officials say it’s too soon to fully assess the damage, with another high tide expected to bring even more trouble.

NASA is moving fast on its plans to build a moon base and return astronauts to the lunar surface in as little as two years.

Scientists have studied a two-century-old coral core from Maui's Olowalu reef, revealing how land use has impacted reef health.

Scientists have traced Vincent van Gogh's “The Starry Night” to a celestial scene that suggests a new date for one of the world's most famous paintings.

An assessment of the world's coral reef ecosystems has found that almost all face a high risk of collapse in the next 50 years mostly due to warming oceans and heat waves.

The Orionid meteor shower, caused by remnants from Halley’s comet, peaks this week.

A Japanese spacecraft is rocketing toward Mars on a quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples.

In the years after the 2010 BP oil spill, the number of fish in the deeper parts of the Gulf of Mexico dramatically declined.

Many American scientists are being recruited by foreign universities holding out offers of stable funding and academic freedom.

A former military pilot has stepped up to preserve Neil Armstrong's boyhood home in Ohio.

Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park.

Ees-eye-ee-us may not look like a common name in America, and it may sound like a bad name for a hurricane hitting the United States. Here's why it was chosen by the World Meteorological Organization.

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died.

Four astronauts are back on Earth after an eight-month stay at the International Space Station.

California strawberry farmers have applied steam to fields as an alternative to chemical fumigants used to kill soil-borne diseases.

Christa Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee.

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A Belgian-born scientist has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved.

Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics.

The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.

Four astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station following an express eight-hour flight.

Carnegie Mellon University announced Wednesday that hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin is donating $3 billion, with the bulk of the money to be used to start a new campus in Miami that will focus on societal challenges.

The collapse of public housing in Venezuela's La Guaira state after two June earthquakes is linked to decisions made in 2010.

The Aquarium of the Pacific is nurturing critically endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs before releasing them into the wild.

NASA is throwing extra support and money behind Boeing's troubled astronaut capsule to get it fixed and flying again as soon as possible.

SpaceX has launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time and successfully delivered the newest and most advanced Starlinks yet.

The robotic spacecraft that failed to rescue an aging NASA telescope has plunged back to Earth less than three months after launching on the bold mission.

The hurricane season in the Pacific Ocean already has been very active, thanks to the El Nino weather phenomenon.

A federal health panel has endorsed an experimental cancer test that uses a blood sample to detect multiple forms of the disease.

There's excitement on the beaches of Southern California.

A federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge as part of a land swap in Texas.

For years, scientists have explored ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere, including through direct air capture, changes to ocean chemistry so seawater can absorb more carbon and reforestation.

Before the first golfer tees off each morning at Interlachen Country Club in Winter Park, superintendent Bryce Gibson is already walking the fairways, listening to birdsong, scouting dry spots and preparing 110 acres of maintained turf for the day ahead.

Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that's bigger than the Roman Colosseum, the result of a powerful impact two years ago.

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A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979.

Human development may be shifting the seasonal calendar for pollinators, according to a new study from University of Florida researchers.

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye.

A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a baby girl from an embryo frozen for 22 years.

A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected.

A University of Florida researcher has documented a mosquito species never before recorded in the United States.

The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August.

The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are leaving spaceflight behind.

Indonesian rescuers are searching for eight people who went missing at sea while heading to report on a volcanic eruption at Anak Krakatau.

The Trump administration named four officials to take over senior roles at the Food and Drug Administration, including the agency’s top leaders for drugs and vaccines.

Citrus land keeps vanishing from Florida’s landscape, down nearly 21 percent over the past year, according to a federal report. While the industry produced a slight increase in its overall 2025-2026 harvest from the prior season, individual growers have been weighed down over the past two decades by hurricanes, winter freezes, changing drinking habits, a citrus greening disease and development pressures.

Flights to and from Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta have resumed after ash from a volcanic eruption forced a two-day closure that halted nearly 3,000 flights.

Indonesia is maintaining closures at several airports and shifting schools to remote learning though the eruption of Anak Krakatau is easing.

Chimpanzees once used in hepatitis B vaccine experiments are getting health checks at their new home in Liberia.

A private spacecraft that was supposed to save NASA's sinking Swift Observatory has managed to come within nine miles of the doomed spacecraft and even snap pictures.

Two Mercury-bound spacecraft are in the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage.

Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died at 90.

Scientists have discovered an enormous 10-sided wave pattern in the icy ammonia clouds over Saturn's south pole.

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

Researchers are catching a wide range of sharks off New York’s Hamptons and outfitting them with small trackers as they seek to understand more about one of the world’s few confirmed great white shark nurseries.

Mount Sinabung in Indonesia has erupted, spewing black ash and smoke into the sky over Sumatra island.

NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off on a quest to find planets around other stars and explore the hidden universe.

Forecasters say Hurricane Karina has become a major hurricane in the Pacific but poses no immediate threat to land.

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year have received the nation's highest space honor.

SpaceX has pulled off its biggest salvage operation yet, recovering its most recently launched Starship from the Indian Ocean.

A massive study shows what illnesses and injuries spike in emergency room visits during heat waves in Chicago.

A new restoration project is underway along the Indian River Lagoon, with the City of Edgewater and Riverside Conservancy working to rebuild habitat, improve water quality, and strengthen the shoreline at Veteran’s Park. The first phase of the project includes the installation of 60 engineered oyster modules designed to provide a stable surface for oysters to attach and grow, eventually creating a living reef.

Elon Musk’s space company plans to spend $100 billion to build a new spaceport in Louisiana to launch rockets.

A Chinese humanoid robot has set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing.

Alaska's North Slope tundra may look desolate, but crouch down and you'll see a lush jungle.

China has postponed its planned ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission.

It's the moon's turn to pull a disappearing act.

Over the past 50 years, the Gibbon Conservation Center has become a globally recognized institution dedicated to the care and well-being of gibbons.

Federal officials have announced sharp water cuts for the next two years for three Western states that rely on the imperiled Colorado River.

Harvard University Medical School has agreed to pay $53 million to settle a class action lawsuit over its former morgue manager’s illegal sale of human remains.

The mission to save NASA's sinking space telescope has been called off.

Eclipses may be wondrous, but nothing beats seeing the northern and southern lights from space.

President Donald Trump has picked Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration.

A telescope has spotted the fastest known star in the Milky Way.

Floating tentacled predators pulse and swirl in hypnotic patterns in the dark museum space, lit primarily by images projected on walls and the light from the saltwater tanks.

A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket.

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates have declined again, with exemptions reaching a record high.

A small but growing body of research shows that GLP-1 drugs often used to treat obesity may also work for the hormonal disorder known as PMOS.

Time is a concept that varies across cultures and history.

A new study suggests a protective vest tested on a manikin during NASA's first Artemis moonshot could slash the radiation exposure of lunar astronauts during severe solar storms.

Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth briefly plunged parts of the planet into darkness.

Sorry, North America.

A coalition of farmers, consumer associations and environmental groups is urging Malaysia’s National Biosafety Board to reject a proposed field trial of genetically modified rice.

The first and only person to break the sound barrier in a car has his eye on another speed record.

Astronomers say viewing conditions are promising for the Perseid meteor shower this year.

A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon's fresh crash scene.

Scientists are creating a new kind of vaccine that teaches the immune system to intercept a type of brewing colon cancer before it turns into a full-fledged tumor.

A new study calculates that human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada’s massive summer wildfires.