Science

NASA's Juno spacecraft's mission to Jupiter has set its sights on the moon Io. 

A coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station was likely caused by a micrometeorite strike, a Russian space official said Thursday.

Some Americans will have clear skies during the meteor shower, but cloudy weather will make stargazing a challenge for many other people across the country.

California wildlife officials said it's unlikely P-22 will be released back into the wild.

What's a dust devil sound like on Mars? A NASA rover by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed directly overhead, recording the racket.

A letter sent out to parents by the school identified the spiders as yellow sac spiders, a common species in the United States.

Researchers and outside experts acknowledge it will likely take decades more before fusion might one day be used to produce nearly limitless carbon-free energy.

She miraculously carried on with her yearly migration from Canada to Hawaii with a paralyzed tail and, sadly, will not be strong enough to make it back.

When you're exploring the great outdoors in Florida, you might expect to see alligators in the water or native egrets flying above. But as one man and his family were boating down the Silver River in Silver Springs State Park, they probably didn't expect to see monkeys leaping from trees into the water right in front of them.

P-22, the mountain lion at the center of a days-long search across Los Angeles, has been captured. Officials now believe the famous big cat may have been struck by a car.

Scientists have been struggling to harness the fusion reaction that powers the Sun for more than half a century.

This year’s star is a clumsy, 3-month-old lion cub figuring out his way in the wilds of the Serengeti -- though a sassy penguin topped the list, too.

Four lion cubs rescued from Ukraine are making themselves at home as they experience their first Minnesota winter. 

If an asteroid were to strike New York City, have you ever wondered how many people would be instantly vaporized? Then this morbid, interactive map is for you.

The former Spirit Airlines flight attendant claims the airline violated Civil Rights Act.

Australian researchers searched deeper than scuba divers and submarines could go and found some never-before-seen specimens.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has selected eight people as crew members for his private flight around the moon on a SpaceX spaceship.

It was another seemingly routine mission for SpaceX, which has now launched over 3,000 small satellites into space as the company builds out its Starlink constellation. But this time, the payload belonged to OneWeb, something of a Starlink competitor.

The preliminary western monarch butterfly count found more than 300,000 monarch butterflies across 183 sites in California.