A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has visited earthquake-struck Santorini, as the Aegean island imposed more precautionary measures amid intense seismic activity.

A man described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch in his Sydney backyard.

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe.

Scientists say they’ve cracked the code for boiling the perfect egg.

Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini because of the hundreds of undersea earthquakes that have shaken the resort island for nearly a week.

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.

What do a wedding necklace, Polish savory dumplings and a photo of Hungary’s first astronaut have in common.

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.

Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives.

President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the far side.

Red wolves once ranged far and wide across the U_S_, helping them earn the nickname “America's wolf.”.

The mayor of Santorini says that the hundreds of earthquakes that have rattled Greek islands on the Aegean Sea are a “seismic swarm” and could continue for weeks before eventually diminishing.

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as federal officials move to extend protections for the beloved pollinator.

Samoa’s top health official has denounced as “a complete lie” remarks that Robert F.

Repeated earthquakes are rattling Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini.

The popular Greek holiday island of Santorini is taking emergency measures in response to intense seismic activity.

America’s national bird, the bald eagle, is having a moment.

A series of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini have led authorities to shut down schools, dispatch rescue teams with sniffer dogs and sent instructions to residents including a request to drain their swimming pools.

A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington.

The unsolved death of a teenager in 1977 haunted students and staff at Honolulu's McKinley High School for nearly half a century.

India doubled its tiger population in a little over a decade by protecting the big cats from poaching and habitat loss, ensuring they have enough prey, reducing human-wildlife conflict, and increasing communities’ living standards near tiger areas.

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.

NASA's two stuck astronauts are taking their first spacewalk together, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in.

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032.

An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far south as St. Augustine suffering from a condition known as cold stunning.

Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to environmental changes.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.

A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier.

A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires.

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The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

An Alabama woman is thriving a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants.

Officials say they have recaptured the final four monkeys who escaped two months ago from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research.

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight.

Taiwan plans to cull up to 120,000 green iguanas, with supporters urging humane methods to bring down the animal's population, which is wreaking havoc on the island's agricultural sector.

Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like chirping birds in an unexpected place.

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren't human.

U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration in an inauguration speech that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed social media posts on Tuesday by New Zealanders, who said the achievement belonged to a pioneering scientist revered in his homeland.

Flooded cornfields near the Tennessee River in northern Alabama are a paradise for birders who flock to see tens of thousands of migrating sandhill cranes every winter.

About half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure and too few have it under control.

Emails and videos of burned buildings in Los Angeles versus those still standing have been flying back and forth among architects, builders and fire safety specialists around the world.

IMSA arranged for 27 high school students who excel in STEM programs to come to the speedway to educate the teens on how many opportunities exist in motorsports for those interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Disabled scientists are trying to make research labs and fieldwork more accessible.

SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean.

Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s called a planetary parade.

SpaceX has caught its Starship rocket back at the pad following liftoff.

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life.

One of NASA's two stuck astronauts is getting a change of scenery.

Blue Origin has launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight.

Officials at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are bracing for crowds eager to get a glimpse of lava fountaining from an eruption.

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage.

A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists.

SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business up there.

A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida and its manatee population.

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant have been dumped ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to stop them before they destroy more neighborhoods.

Researchers have used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru.

The National Weather Service’s Los Angeles page screams ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ in hot pink letters against a gray background.

New research suggests that Americans' risk for developing dementia over a lifetime may be higher than previously thought.

Blue Origin will try again to launch its massive new rocket as early as Thursday after calling off the debut launch because of ice buildup in critical plumbing.

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold.

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole.

A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but meteorologists say the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual.

An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice that's at least 1.2 million years old.

New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction.

Egypt has unveiled several discoveries near the famed city of Luxor including ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3,600 years.

Rescuers in the freezing, high-altitude Tibet region in western China searched a second day for any remaining victims of a deadly earthquake that struck near a holy city for Tibetan Buddhists, before shifting their focus to resettling the survivors.

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars.

At a time when North American bird populations are declining dramatically, the number of people watching them is increasing.

A strong earthquake has shaken a high-altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington were awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Meteorologists forecast a strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States.

Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.

Researchers in England have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur tracks that date back 166 million years.

Solar storms may bring northern lights to several states in the northern U.

Maryland is suing the company that produces the waterproof material Gore-Tex.

NASA has confirmed that a spacecraft has made the closest approach to the sun.

Scientists say human-caused climate change added an average of 41 days of dangerous heat worldwide in 2024.

A great gray owl and a snowy owl are being treated by experts after being rescued by a northern Minnesota woman.

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region.

A biologist hid 350 audio monitors across Costa Rica’s tropical rainforests to spy on endangered spider monkeys in order to help protect them.

A NASA spacecraft is about to make the closest approach to the sun.

Two new perentie lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to be bred there.

The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses.

The Quadrantid meteor shower will be the year’s first chance to see fireballs in the sky.

Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilized mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home this year.

The federal government says that two endangered whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off Massachusetts and that one is likely to die from its injuries.

The last meteor shower of the year peaks a few days before Christmas.

A Japanese space startup says its second attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit had been aborted minutes after liftoff.

Scientists in China have almost finished building a massive underground detector to sniff out mysterious particles called neutrinos.

NASA's two stuck astronauts just got their space mission extended again.

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club.

New research suggests that Saturn's rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet.

A giant salamander that evolved on the supercontinent Pangaea and outlived the dinosaurs has been proposed for federal protection by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries.

A new study says Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago.