Report: Conservation efforts help mountain gorilla Conservation efforts are showing results for the mountain gorilla and two whale species, but several other species [...]

Parker Solar Probe flies close to sun for first time The Parker Solar Probe communicated with NASA scientists on Wednesday, two days after [...]

Daily flavonoid consumption may help protect heart health Consuming flavonoids on a daily basis may help protect heart health, according to data presented [...]

Hyper-defensive engineered plants produce fewer seeds, grow shorter Plants engineered to always be on guard for pests tend to be smaller and produce [...]

Cassini's last Saturn flights result in new studies (NASA/Getty Images) Cassini's final ventures into Saturn's atmosphere last year yielded a number of scientific [...]

Now an "ugly duckling" from 85 million years ago is shedding new light on the giant marine reptiles that lived at the time [...]

Bees went silent during total solar eclipse Citizen-scientists placed microphones in flower patches at 11 locations in the path of the 2017 solar [...]

Rubble-strewn surface of asteroid Ryugu The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has released the highest-resolution photo yet of the surface of Ryugu, the asteroid [...]

Neanderthal child's bones digested by large bird found in Poland The 115,000-year-old finger bones of a Neanderthal child have been discovered in Poland, [...]

Hayabusa2 drops MASCOT lander onto Ryugu's surface Japan's Hayabusa2 has deployed another lander onto the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. The MASCOT, a [...]