After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

A recent flurry of executive orders and surprise actions by the Trump administration have roiled WHO, the CDC and the international public health community.

Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

Found in a roughly 350-year-old manuscript by Dutch biologist Johannes Swammerdam, the scientific illustration shows the brain of a honeybee drone.

Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiments suggest, which could play into social dynamics within a colony.

Weather data show how humankind’s burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, windy weather more likely, setting the stage for the Los Angeles wildfires.

Mapping fish migration routes and identifying threats is crucial to protecting freshwater species and their habitats, ecologists argue.

Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.

Logistical needs, like employment and housing, along with psychological needs must be met after disasters like the LA wildfires, research shows.

As wildfires burn the landscape, they prime slopes for debris flows: powerful torrents of rock, mud and water that sweep downhill with deadly momentum.

These mysterious whitish-gray glows in the northern lights might be cousins of the mauve light streak known as STEVE.