On World Toilet Day, here are seven startling facts about sanitation around the globe.
Lunar Mission One is looking to raise money to launch a probe to the moon.
Freezing temperatures swept North America Tuesday, driving temperatures to 32 degrees or lower in all 50 states.
While the spread of the Ebola outbreak appears to be slowing in Liberia, the economic impact of the virus has only just begun.
One Campaign video on Ebola makes the case that the world waited too long to respond to the epidemic.
Scientists hope to find the right DNA to help extinct life find its way back.
Cuba had sent 256 medical workers to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, to help tackle Ebola and received global praise for the move.
Japan is planning to resume hunting whales in the Southern Ocean next year, but has scaled back the number of whales it intends to take.
As U.S. health care fraud grows, one New Jersey doctor admits to his part in $100 million bribery scheme.
The 26-year-old Indian national had returned from Liberia with a medical certificate stating he was Ebola-free.
Sierra Leone’s government has said that it will obtain a full medical report and conduct an extensive investigation into Salia’s case.
Before it was shut down, the Rosetta probe Philae reportedly discovered organic molecules on Comet 67P.
A previously unknown virus is responsible for the death of millions of sea stars in the Pacific Northwest.
The Leonid meteor shower will peak in the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday.
Europe's approach to bird flu outbreaks in the U.K. and the Netherlands is not unlike that taken by China's government last year.
Mali has been added to the list of countries whose travelers will be screened upon arrival in U.S. airports.
After traveling billions of miles and landing on a comet, the spacecraft Philae ends its mission early.
Equipment developed for the Russian segment of the International Space Station will be used for the project, helping Moscow reduce costs.
While the virus detected in the Netherlands was identified as H5N8, the strain of the virus in the U.K. has so far not been identified.
Federal health officials intercepted a cruise ship as it docked in California on Sunday, after dozens of people became ill with a norovirus.
A strong earthquake rocked New Zealand on Monday morning, however there were no immediate reports of damage.
Aggression ranged from chasing to biting and hitting.
Its last task was to reposition itself so that as the comet soars toward the sun, Philae’s batteries may recharge enough for a follow-on mission.
China, Africa's biggest trade partner, had come under fire for the level of its response to the Ebola crisis.
The 2015 Breakthrough Prizes honors winners in the fields of physics, mathematics and life sciences.
The action 317 million miles away on a comet was more interesting than the "Paper" magazine photos of Kim Kardashian.
A study has mapped the magnetic fields of the chondrule grains which came from a meteorite named Semarkona.
After landing on a comet, the Philae's battery is dying without sunlight, but the probe sent one last package of crucial data to Earth.
The number of high schoolers smoking e-cigarettes has tripled since 2011, reigniting arguments about teen-targeted advertising.
A real-life “unicorn” recently discovered in Slovenia was actually a roe deer with a rare deformity.