The sun's magnetic fields are expected to flip by the end of the year, indicating the peak of solar activity.
The majority of ESA's GOCE satellite broke up during reentry, but some debris did crash to Earth.
The Pennsylvania-based rare-disease drug maker's product pipeline had reportedly attracted several suitors.
Haiyan, one of the worst storms ever recorded, affected more than 4 million people in 270 towns and cities across the Philippines.
Scientists have discovered a new and mysterious scorpion species, Euscorpius lycius, in southwestern Turkey in what was once Lycia.
Three Expedition 37 crew members are set to return from the ISS and a live stream will start at 6 p.m. EST.
The European Space Agency says there is little chance people will get hit by the debris.
Super Typhoon Haiyan's death toll is expected to reach 10,000 in the city of Tacloban in central Philippines alone.
Cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy carried the Olympic torch outside of the ISS as part of a planned space walk on Saturday.
The exhumed bones of the famed Chilean poet failed to yield any trace of poison.
A European satellite is expected to fall to Earth on Sunday night, but scientists can't say where the debris will land.
Some preliminary estimates peg Super Typhoon Haiyan as the strongest pacific cyclone at landfall ever recorded.
Supposedly universal theories of human psychology and behavior often stem from examinations of a very odd tribe: college students.
The Food and Drug Administration may be banning some of your favorite foods as major source of trans fat is no longer seen as "safe"
Two Jurassic-era bugs were caught in flagrante, 165 million years after the fact.
The rarity of the new species indicates the frailty of shark diversity in the face of human predation, scientists said.
Microbes that can survive harsh environments can hitchhike on spacecraft and contaminate off-world study sites, scientists said.
Haiyan is being called the strongest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall.
An unusual-looking asteroid spotted by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope has six comet-like tails that resemble spokes on a wheel.
Chris Hadfield is perhaps the most recognizable modern astronaut due to his viral videos he made aboard the International Space Station.
Some scientists think the danger from smaller asteroids, like the one that exploded over Russia in February, has been underestimated.
Clay might have acted as a breeding place for the biochemicals that made life possible on Earth, scientists say.
The prominent physicist discovered a phenomenon called the “Raman effect,” for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
Scientist have found the oldest known fossil of copulating insects.
People in the family born with the syndrome grow hair all over their faces.
First detected in September 2012, MERS is considered the deadlier, less-communicable cousin of the SARS virus.
Sapar Mansor, a Malaysian angler, caught an unidentified fish in the South China Sea that is covered with sharp spines on the top of bottom of its body.
A study found that many of the herbal supplements available at our local pharmacies and health stores do not even contain the ingredients advertised on their labels.
Lythronax argestes is helping scientists flesh out the T. rex family tree.
The new discovery suggests that there could be a “hunting ground for black holes” in the Milky Way galaxy.