On Aug. 25, it'll be 25 years since the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Triton, one of the 13 natural moons orbiting the planet Neptune - and only now are we seeing what the encounter probably looked like in living color.
In the wake of a disruptive 6.0-magnitude earthquake that caused widespread injuries and property damage to California's wine country, scientists aren't yet blaming the drought for the event, but residents are worried.
Nearly 93,000 pounds of fully cooked chicken Caesar salad kits are being recalled by a California food producer due to possible contamination by Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) contamination, the United Sates Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced.
The mother of a beauty pageant contestant in Florida is suspected of forcing her daughter to ingest tapeworms - in order to lose weight for competition.
Two satellites sent into orbit by the European Space Agency and intended as part of Europe's version of the American-based GPS satellite navigation system have themselves ended up off-course.
An area in Utah less than the size of a football field, but filled with an estimated 200 fossilized tracks left by at least ten different prehistoric animals, is opening up to the public in the fall.
A Falcon 9R rocket developed and operated by California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp., also known as SpaceX, exploded shortly after launching during a test flight in Texas, the company has confirmed.
There are lots of fish in the sea to pick from, but if you're a pregnant woman, tuna shouldn't be one of them, according to new findings announced by Consumer Reports.
The Boeing Company has announced completion of the Phase Two Spacecraft Safety Review of its Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft and the Critical Design Review of its integrated systems, meeting all of the company's progress goals needed for advancement, as it hopes to supply the nation's next taxi to space.
City life isn't a good match for everyone, but golden orb-weaving spiders not only seem to survive, but flourish amid the sprawl of concrete jungles, shows new research from the University of Sydney in Australia.
Reports from the International Space Station are that plankton, the tiny creatures typically found living in the earth's oceans, subject to wherever the currents go, have been living on the outside of the hull.
Eating snails is not at all a contemporary culinary trend, but a practice that's moved across the dining tables of the world over many, many centuries, new research shows.
A combined $7,500 is being offered by authorities for information leading to the conviction of whomever is responsible for the shooting of a bald eagle in Bridgeton City Park, New Jersey, that led to the bird's death.
The average global temperature over land and ocean surfaces last month tied was the all-time fourth highest readings for the month of July since record keeping began in 1880. Only July temperatures in 2005, 2010 and 1998 were warmer.
Spacewalking astronauts from the International Space Station have released a tiny Peruvian research satellite into the void of space, where it will settle into orbit to regularly monitor the earth's atmospheric pressure and temperature, aside from capturing ongoing images from below.
Springtime snow on Arctic sea ice has thinned dramatically in the last 50 years, up to about half in some areas, according to new research by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and University of Washington.
The way people eat - their food choices, food cravings, even their inability to modify their intake in order to get into better shape - may all come down to gut reactions, literally.
A bacterium that in its natural state can cause tissue-damaging infection in cattle and sheep, as well as humans, has been modified by researchers to attack cancerous animal and human cells.
A drug used to treat a rare type of bone marrow cancer has also been found to restore hair in patients with an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss, a new study has found.
Days after researchers announced capturing the first known particles of stardust from outside our solar system, new maps of the Milky Way galaxy are providing more insight about the nature of matter between stars.
Just before sunrise on Monday, Aug. 16, Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, and Venus, the goddess of love, will join together in the east-northeastern sky.
As the robot probe Rosetta begins a detailed analysis of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with which it rendezvoused earlier this month, it's already captured remarkable images of the space traveler's surface.
The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced 368 pounds of ground beef have been recalled from Whole Foods Market locations mi New England, due to E.coli fears.
Adults who suffer poor sleep have a higher risk of dying from suicide than well-rested adults, researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have found.
