SCIENCE

BOCA CHICA VILLAGE, Texas — As Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, says repeatedly, he created a rocket company because he...

Whales and dolphins don’t belong in tanks, and the inherent suffering these highly social and intelligent animals endure in intensive confinement can no longer be tolerated.

Joachim Messing, a pioneer of DNA sequencing whose techniques enabled scientists to study the building blocks of viruses, improve the yield of crop plants...

Researchers were stunned to see that at least one species of deep-sea fish have super vision and are capable of picking up a broad range of light wavelengths and may even see color. Because the deeper you go underwater, the scarcer light gets.

China encourages space exploration among younger generation, spending the day in the Mars simulation base camp, a place where they can experience life on the red planet without leaving Earth.

Aggressive screening might have helped contain the coronavirus in the United States. But technical flaws, regulatory hurdles and lapses in leadership let it spread...

Artificial intelligence better than humans at spotting lung cancer

Climate change protesters from Extinction Rebellion snarled traffic in Washington on Monday and again on Friday. You might find yourself asking, “Who helps...

The planet Mars doesn't damage easily, but the outcome is almost a work of art when it does.

SpaceX will attempt to jump start its ambitious internet-from-space initiative known as Starlink, by launching the first 60 production satellites of nearly 12,000 planned spacecraft into a low orbit above Earth