This year’s dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico will kill off marine life in an area the size of Connecticut, government scientists said Thursday. …

Normally, galaxies create only a few stars per year, but this one, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, is producing a hundred more times than …

A new federal map released Monday shows parts of Oklahoma are now as seismic as parts of California and Alaska, long the nation’s leaders in …

President Barack Obama signed legislation Wednesday to overhaul the way the federal government regulates chemicals that are in virtually every consumer product. Chemicals in household …

Light pollution prevents a third of the world’s population from seeing the Milky Way from their homes, according to new research. Researchers behind the study, …

Good luck getting this rock on an engagement ring. A “spectacular” 404.2-carat diamond — which is almost three inches long — has been found in …

In a new time-lapse video, NASA shows the construction of a massive 130-foot tall rocket fuel tank look in just 60 seconds. The video shows …

Wealthy countries that have contributed the most to climate change tend to be most immune to its effects, according to new research, a finding that …

Reaching another star with a human-built spacecraft has for decades seemed like a challenge as distant as, well, any far-off star humans might try to …

Scientists have identified an asteroid formed in the inner Solar System at the same time as Earth that has been remarkably preserved, according to new …