The global shipping industry wants governments to tax their carbon emissions as they try to tackle climate change

SpaceX's reusable Crew Dragon spaceship is reviving human spaceflight for NASA. It's about to launch astronauts from the US, Japan, and...

Insider discussed the risks and benefits of COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.

Greta Thunberg turned 18 in January, but she’s already made peace with her future: While most college students will change their concen...

Unlike its popular movie incarnations, Tyrannosaurus rex - the giant meat-eating dinosaur from the Cretaceous period - walked slower th...

NASA optimistic weather will cooperate for a Friday launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station.

The study followed almost 8,000 people for 25 years to conclude that poor sleep after turning 50 makes dementia more likely.

Actors Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim and Toni Collette star as a space crew whose two-year mission to Mars is thrown into turmoil when...

Less noticed is another trend: people tuning in to nature for quieter, real-life, high-stakes drama. From new Audubon field guides, up...

When a killer whale slowly circled back toward wildlife photographer Brian Skerry in the middle of the ocean after discarding the giant...

Traces of radioactive cesium-137 act as a marker of "hot spots" of nuclear contamination, but are not concentrated enough to be a healt...

Thursday morning's launch marks SpaceX's third piloted flight to orbit and the first with a "used" Crew Dragon ferry ship.

In two decades orbiting the Earth the International Space Station has become a cutting-edge cosmic laboratory, with astronauts research...

A new study questions the sustainability of used cooking oil imports into Europe to make biodiesel.

Every April, Earth passes through a trail of debris left behind by a comet. As debris enters our atmosphere, it burns up and streaks ac...

CBD experts debunk myths like all CBD is created equal, CBD gets you high, the hemp derivative is addictive, and CBD and marijuana are...

Much of the world's energy comes from non-renewable energy sources. These inventions are innovating our energy consumption and paving a...

Could getting too little sleep increase your chances of developing dementia? For years, researchers have pondered this and other questi...

The fight against COVID-19 is a lonely one with patients forced into isolation in intensive care wards, removed from family and friends...

For the first time, NASA is putting its trust in a recycled SpaceX rocket and capsule for a crew. Astronaut Megan McArthur takes speci...

Wearing a surgical mask over a cloth mask does not provide added benefit, a study found. It's just as effective as wearing a surgical m...

The research, published on Monday in the journal Peer J, was done on remains found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument i...

Indonesia has approved private research of COVID-19 vaccine candidate Nusantara that is backed by a former health minister, after recen...

The first major meteor shower since January is coming to a sky near you over the next few nights, with the peak being during the predaw...

The Ingenuity team aims to push the space drone to the extremes. They don't expect it to survive, though.

The CDC has issues special guidance for the specific post-vaccine clots, known as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, o...

Australia and New Zealand launched a travel bubble on Monday, allowing people to travel between the two countries without quarantining.