Life’s Building Blocks Found on Dwarf Planet Ceres

It often seems a parade of researchers are trying to foist new things I don’t want on me: a new organ, a new planet, a new dwarf planet, a new continent.

A few years ago, bringing back an extinct species was considered science fiction. That’s no longer the case. Developments in cloning and our ability to work with ancient DNA have made some scientists so confident that they claim to be on the brink of …

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo ship stand atop NASA’s Launch Pad 39A for a Feb. 18, 2017 launch. It will be SpaceX’s first launch from the historic NASA pad, which saw launches for Apollo moon missions, Skylab and the space shuttle program.

A massive, 1-mile-long (1.6 kilometers) chunk of ice has broken off Antarctica’s fast-changing Pine Island Glacier, and NASA satellites captured the dramatic event as the icy surface cracked and ripped apart.

CAPE CANAVERAL—For decades it has stood like a skyscraper on the Florida coast, its spire stretching more than 400-feet high. The kings and queens of the cosmos—astronauts from Apollo and the shuttle eras, including Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and …

Ever dreamed of being an astronomer? NASA wants your help finding an elusive and mysterious planet called Planet Nine, which scientists believe is located beyond Neptune.

Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) on sea ice at the Brunt ice shelf. Credit: British Antarctic Survey. This year the extent of summer sea ice in the Antarctic is the lowest on record.

A depiction of Dinocephalosaurus, a long-necked marine reptile dating to the Middle Triassic period. A 250-million-year-old fossil of the fish-eating reptile found in China contained an embryo in its abdomen.

(CNN) Climate change is extending far beyond the threat of melting polar ice caps — it’s putting a dangerous stranglehold on life in oceans, too.

Over the past few decades, oil and gas revenue has helped the United Arab Emirates develop at a breakneck pace. Its glistening megacity Dubai is now home to the world’s tallest building and countless other accolades, while just last year there were new …

A team biologists and computer scientists have created the first ever facial recognition system for lemurs, able to identify more than 100 different individuals with 98.7 percent accuracy.

In the epoch of alternative facts, congressional Republicans are devout truth twisters – especially when they argue for dismantling the Endangered Species Act.

Mankind is one step closer to possibly discovering life outside Earth. A group of astronomers have discovered 60 new extrasolar planets near the Solar System, with some of them having the likelihood to sustain life, the Independent reported Tuesday.

Axovant Sciences logo Axovant Sciences Ltd. (NYSE:AXON) announced its earnings results on Tuesday. The company reported ($0.48) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.45) by $0.03.

Banned chemicals from the 1970s have been discovered in the bodies of crustaceans in the deepest of Earth’s ocean trenches. 0. Tweet.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) – State officials need volunteers to help with Michigan’s annual frog and toad survey. Populations of frogs, toads and other amphibians have been falling since the 1980s.

In January 2017, global temperature was 32.36 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than January 2016, the hottest January on record, but it was still warmer than the mean January temperature from 1951 to 1980.

Politics, it would seem, has reached a flash point – such that it’s no longer sufficient to purge the staff and alter the message every time there’s a new Presidential administration.