The second stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket captured an amazing view of Earth during the launch of the Intelsat 40e ...

Earth, captured once a day by the EUMETSAT meteorological satellite, have been time-lapsed. (video looped) Credit: Simon ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

The shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history, eclipsing the record previously held by the shutdown of late 2018 and early 2019. That funding lapse ended on the evening of the 35th day, when ...

The government shutdown will become the longest-running shutdown in modern American history if the Senate fails to reopen it by the evening of Nov. 4, continuing a long period of uncertainty for ...

A few weeks ago, NOAA announced the cancellation of a contract with the Alaska Earthquake Center to operate nine seismic stations that feed data directly to the two U.S. tsunami warning centers.

One of the most highly regulated sectors in the U.S. food industry is still too vulnerable to contamination.