A few years ago, a team of researchers in Europe wanted to figure out the answer to a simple question: How long would it take for evolution to replace all the mammal species that have gone extinct in ...

Halley’s comet won’t return to the skies until the 2060s. But this weekend, you can catch a glimpse of it in the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. Earth is currently passing through a patch of debris created ...

The Mueller report, Avengers: Endgame, the final season of Game of Thrones: These topics are saturating the media right now. But they’ll soon fade from our attention. Sune Lehmann is a professor of ap ...

There’s no easy way to say this: In the past decade, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of teens attempting to kill themselves with poison. The data appear Wednesday in The Journal of Pediat ...

A huge tropical cyclone with winds above 125 mph just slammed into Mozambique, the southeastern African country that’s still reeling from Cyclone Idai, a storm that killed more than 1,000 people last ...

It takes 415.5 years for a comet called C/1861 G1 Thatcher to do a loop around the sun. But every year in late April, our planet plows into the trail of dust the comet has left behind in its long jour ...