12th Dead Sea Scrolls cave discovered in Israel

February’s Snow Moon will be no ordinary full moon for skywatchers in most parts of the world, as it coincides with a special lunar eclipse that will cast a shadow over the full moon’s usual bright, glowing face.

Strange geckos that live on Madagascar have a unique way of escaping predators – and scientists – but that hasn’t stopped researchers from studying the lizards.

FOSTER CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:GILD) today announced that John F. Milligan, PhD, Gilead’s President and Chief Executive Officer, and Robin L. Washington, Gilead’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial …

Scientists are making lemonade from the particularly sour lemon that is nuclear bomb development: as a new way to answer old questions about our moon.

An expanding crack is threatening Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica as it heads for a breakup. The resulting ice berg will be massive – at 3,000 square miles, it will be half the size of Lebanon.

You might wonder why Mars gets all the interplanetary attention when Venus, our sister planet, is actually closer. Well, the hellish orb has the hottest surface in the solar system, hotter even than Mercury.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) CEO Rush Holt, a former Democratic congressman, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, before the House Science Committee.

Scientists and environmental advocates are up in arms after lumps of coal were found washed up on beaches around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

Night view of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano, one of Earth’s most active volcanoes. A NASA-led team is studying Hawaiian volcanoes from the air, ground and space to better understand volcanic processes and hazards.

WASHINGTON – Another round of bickering is boiling over about temperature readings used in a 2015 study to show how the planet is warming.

Bad news if you’re looking to ditch this planet for another one far, far away. According to new research from NASA, planets in the habitable zone in red dwarf star systems—including much-hyped exoplanet Proxima b—might lose too much oxygen to support …

Stanford University students successfully recreated a 5,000-year-old Chinese beer recipe uncovered by scientists last year. The result was a fruity, cider-like concoction.

SpaceX engineers are preparing to mount a Falcon 9 rocket at Kennedy Space Center’s historic launch pad 39A for the first time this week as the company declares the modified facility ready to support a new era of commercial space missions.

Yesterday, NASA’s Space Launch System – the giant, expensive rocket the space agency is building to take astronauts into deep space and onto Mars someday – got a crucial endorsement from an unlikely ally: the commercial space industry.

Business is booming in the bodycam industry. Police forces across the United States are equipping more of their officers with cameras to gather more information out in the field.

(CNN)The Hubble Telescope captured the spectacular death of a star — an event that has rarely been seen by astronomers. The dying star, known as a red giant, in its final stages blows out its outer layers, leaving clouds of gas and dust, which is …

The exhibit at the Museum of Science looks at lifelike technology through the ages, from a 16th-century clockwork monk to the Terminator.

(CNN) The dangers of space exploration are all too clear. Last month we observed the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 disaster — a cabin fire during launch rehearsals which claimed the lives of all three crew.