Two astronauts making their first spacewalk ventured outside the International Space Station on Friday amid heightened awareness of the threat posed by micrometeoroids and space debris in the wake of an impact that damaged a Russian crew ferry ship last month.
Some 66 million years ago, a 6-mile-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near what today is Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, wiping out much of the planet's life.
A bad throw by an ancient hunter reveals how the first Americans lived nearly 14,000 years ago.
A huge filament of solar plasma has broken off the sun's surface and is circling its north pole like a vortex of powerful winds, but scientists have no clue what caused it.
Although the project is still in its early stages, the scientists hope to bring the catfish-alligator hybrids to supermarkets.
Citing poor weather at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, SpaceX has decided to delay this launch to no earlier than the evening of Monday, Feb. 6.
The Roman travel route was discovered along with Bronze Age homes and pottery dating back to 1500 BC.
The island was destroyed by the same volcano that formed it seven years before.
Homeowners around the Outer Banks or in St. Augustine, Florida, are just some of those along the East Coast feeling the slow power of sea-level rise.
SpaceX plans to launch Hispasat's Amazonas Nexus communications satellite to orbit Monday (Feb. 6), and you can watch the action live.
The discovery of Stone Age homes is helping experts understand Foyle valley's early settlers.
Do full-fledged quantum computers already exist, or will it be a decade before they come into being? Will they have to be the size of a football field? A data center cabinet? A microwave oven? It seems as if the more you talk to computer scientists involved in the quantum computing quest, the less certain the answers become. It’s the flip side of the classic case of Schrödinger’s Cat, which is both dead and alive until you open the box: Quantum computers could be regarded as already alive, or no
Scientists are reincarnating the woolly mammoth to return in 4 years. See how they're bringing the ancient beast back from extinction.
Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen via ReutersThe same highly pathogenic bird-flu virus that’s killed tens of millions of chickens and other birds over the past year just got a lot closer to infecting people, too.An unusual outbreak of the H5N1 virus in minks—relatives of weasels—at a Spanish fur farm last fall also exposed the farm’s staff to the virus. Swift action by health authorities helped prevent any human infections. This time.But bird flu isn’t going away. And as H5N1 continues to circ
SpaceX tested its Super Heavy Booster prototype in July at its facility in Boca Chica, Texas, but it ended in an unexpected explosion.
Piranhas do bite, but can they kill you? NetflixEditor’s note: This article contains minor spoilers for the Netflix series “Wednesday.” The popular Netflix series “Wednesday” chronicles the adventures of the Addams family’s teen daughter. After her parents send her to Nevermore Academy, a school for “outcasts,” Wednesday Addams, played by Jenna Ortega, is pulled into a perplexing murder mystery. The show is infused with elements of the supernatural but also contains scenes that may leave viewers
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that causes climate change. Here's what to know about carbon dioxide, carbon and global warming.
India's wheat plantings remained steady despite a rally in price of the staple to a record as farmers in a key producing central state shifted to rapeseed to take advantage of even higher prices for the oilseed, farm ministry data showed on Monday. A lower-than-expected planting area in the world's second biggest wheat producer may cap an expected rise in production, after output fell last year because of a heatwave that forced New Delhi to ban exports amid limited supplies from Black Sea region because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A rise in rapeseed output could help the world's biggest edible oil importer reduce overseas purchases of palm oil, soyoil and sunflower oil.
The contaminants add to a long list of chemicals found in Southern Resident and Bigg's orcas, both of which are at risk of extinction.
NOAA Chemical Sciences Lab director Dr. David Fahey joined FOX Weather on Sunday morning to explain how decades of banning harmful chemicals is helping to restore Earth-s ozone layer.
The History Channel’s historical period drama Vikings (now streaming on Peacock!) was inspired by Scandinavian folklore and follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, Viking hero and king of legend. Whether Lothbrok was a real person or an invented character akin to Robin Hood or King Arthur is a matter of some contention among historians. That’s because most of the details about his life come from old poetry or accounts written down after the fact. According to Historic UK, the best evidence fo
