Scientists move one step closer to "universal" donor organs with a successful kidney transplant in a brain-dead patient.

Researchers have found that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are highly effective at reducing cervical cancer-causing ...

Comet Lemmon, discovered earlier this year, will make a close approach to Earth later this month, giving skywatchers the ...

Chimps' ability to metabolize fermented fruit could explain our own predilection for alcohol. Chimpanzees could be consuming ...

An ocean flowing beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is spewing ice that holds the building blocks of life.

The number of deaths from exposure to wildfire smoke in the U.S. could rise by more than 70% in the next 25 years. The human ...

Her response: "Because we know what it means." It was a revealing answer: China, unlike many other countries, tends not to make climate commitments that it doesn't understand or intend to keep. And ...

A Chinese robotics company has unveiled what it describes as a realistic robot face, with plans to make humanoid robots more approachable and relatable.

Divers have recovered over 1,000 coins from a shipwreck off the east coast of Florida. The coins were discovered this summer within the historical "Treasure Fleet" of Spanish ships that sank in July ...

Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought.

New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North ...