The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Sir Isaac Newton, a renowned scientist known for formulating the laws of motion and gravity, predicted the world as we know ...

A small earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area late Thursday morning, adding another challenge to what is already a busy day battling nature in the region.

Marc Fogel, an American history teacher who was deemed wrongfully detained by Russia, has been released and returned to the U.S. in what the White House described as a diplomatic thaw that could ...

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In addition to swearing in Dr. Mike Sfraga as the United States’ first Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic Region, the State ...

The Los Angeles area’s groundwater remained depleted even after a series of historic atmospheric rivers struck the region in ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Through her thought-provoking practice, New York-based artist Prune Nourry challenges perceptions of femininity, the sacred and the body’s resilience, as seen in her new exhibition in Paris.