Voyager 2 registered a sharper difference in magnetic particles and plasma density than expected upon crossing the heliopause. <br/>

NASA has commissioned Southwest Research Institute to study the possibility and the cost of a long-term Pluto orbiter mission. <br/>

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a human papillomavirus vaccine for adults age 27 - 45.

On June 19, the CERN Council in Geneva Switzerland approved the construction of a new 100-kilometer circular supercollider called the Future Circular Collider.

Rabbits are under threat as a deadly hemorrhagic virus spreads across the southwestern United States.

China announced on December 27 that it is only a few months away from completing its own satellite-based position system called Beidou. <br/>

Easter Island’s Moai stone monoliths might have been created out of the belief they would make crops more fertile, according to new research by the University of California, Los Angeles. <br/>

The U.S. Navy shot down an aerial drone with a solid state laser weapon during a test off Pearl Harbor on May 16.

Billions of years ago, the ancient moon had a powerful dynamo at its core that produced a strong global magnetic field. <br/>

Data cable will link New York City to the city of Bude in Britain and the city of Bilbao in Spain, according to Alphabet Inc.

A group of astronomers has successfully captured an image of the birth of two planets orbiting the star PDS 70.

Hot super-Earths are fiery rocky planets orbiting so close to their suns that their surface is heated to lava oceans. <br/>

Archeologists may have found out when cave-dwelling prehistoric Mesoamericans began eating maize as a staple, according to a new study in Science Advances.

Asteroid impact gets sole credit for wiping out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, according to new research.

New research from the World Wide Fund for Nature and the University of Newcastle, Australia suggests that humans consume roughly 2,000 pieces of microplastics, or five grams of plastic, a week. <br/>

Scientists have found that the flu vaccine is less effective for people with excess weight. <br/>

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has proposed a new regulation that would require all travelers — including U.S. citizens and green card holders — to undergo mandatory facial scans when entering and leaving the country.

The FBI warned consumers this week that their smart TVs may be collecting extensive data about them. <br/>

The city of Paris has announced plans to revamp the area around the Eiffel Tower and turn it into a pedestrian-friendly garden.

79-story golden tower planned for Toronto amid skyscraper boom <br/>

North Korea has conducted cyberattacks to steal an estimated US$2 billion to fund its nuclear weapons program, Reuters reports, citing a confidential U.N. report.

New research from the University of Tasmania has found that seabirds are becoming smaller in size due to their consumption of plastic.

Scientists have determined the angle of impact for the asteroid that contributed to the dinosaurs’ extinction 66 million years ago.

A team of scientists discovered unusual signals caused by high-energy neutrinos using a radio detector called the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, or ANITA, according to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal submitted on...