While Earth enjoys an eclipse, a NASA probe is ready to ‘touch the sun’

The sun is having a glamorous year. It’s at solar maximum, the peak of its 11-year cyc ...

Scientists discover fossilized remnants of earliest known forest

Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of the world’s earliest known forest at ...

Wildlife worker dons cunning disguise to care for rescued newborn fox

A newborn fox recently delivered to a wildlife center could see an unusual sight when ...

‘Monumental’ experiment suggests how life on Earth may have started

A much-debated theory holds that 4 billion years ago, give or take, long before the ap ...

MAISONS-ALFORT, France — Oxygen pumped through a tube in the intensive care unit, as t ...

For the first time in centuries, a gray whale is spotted in New England

Paul Dudley, an official in colonial Massachusetts, wrote in 1725 about a “scrag whale ...

SHANGHAI — The happiest place on Earth for cats might just be here, on Cat Island, a f ...

As relations between the United States and China have soured in recent years, Beijing ...

Jonathan Uhr, immunologist who advanced cancer treatment, dies at 96

Jonathan W. Uhr, a medical researcher who expanded the field of immunology with studie ...

Study: Nonnative earthworms are all over North America, and it’s a problem

Nonnative earthworms have colonized much of the North American continent, posing a thr ...