India's top court on Friday ordered authorities in the smog-choked capital New Delhi to establish checkpoints on all 113 ...

In heavily forested Gabon, elephants are increasingly wandering into villages and destroying crops, angering the local ...

Federal officials released a range of scenarios on Nov 20 that could be used to manage the over-allocated and shrinking Colorado River as time for the seven basin states to reach an agreement grows ...

This illustration shows a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian's Star or Tabby's Star. The star has experienced unusual dips in brightness over a matter of ...

If one oarfish landing on a beach is a sign of a disaster to come, how bad will it be if three wash up in quick succession? A silvery 10-foot-long creature, the oarfish has fueled fisherman's tales of ...

SpaceX has flown 77 of the 82 launches from either Cape Canaveral or Kennedy Space Center this year, with United Launch Alliance having flown the other five. The total launches from all providers has ...

Lithium ore and mining waste from a historic lithium mine located west of Charlotte, North Carolina, are unlikely to ...

Mysterious, repeating sounds from the depths of the ocean can be terrifying to some, but in the 1980s, they presented a ...

The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a discovery that RNA—a key molecule ...

A team of climate scientists in Germany and China has found evidence, using a climate model, that in the coming years, ...

A new study on aging in the animal kingdom has highlighted how urgently Earth's oldest and wisest creatures must be protected ...

According to the fossil record, cetaceans—whales, dolphins and their relatives—evolved from four-legged land mammals that ...