SCIENCE

The initial age estimate for it was about 16 billion years old -- problematic, since the universe is just 13.8 billion years old!

What if we sprang forward but never fell back?

Sicily's Mount Etna erupted on Tuesday and was captured on video by The Associated Press.

Winter Storm Saturn is bringing along some especially wet snow, which is heavier than soft, fluffy flakes.

Concerned your home might be swallowed by the earth as recently happened in Florida? Here's what science knows about it.

Comet Pan-STARRS will be visible with the naked eye to people in the Northern Hemisphere starting on Thursday.

The nation's capital could get anywhere between 3 to 8 inches of snow starting Tuesday night.

The snowfall is projected for Tuesday evening and to continue overnight into early Wednesday morning. Some areas could expect snowfall accumulations of 10 to 14 inches.

A Harvard surgeon that restored the voices of Julie Andrews, Steven Tyler and Adele is a bit of a rock star himself.

Curing pediatric AIDS is hardly an easy task, even if the recent Mississippi case turns out to be more than a fluke.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been temporarily put to “safe mode” as the scientists from Earth are attempting to fix a memory glitch, NASA said in a statement.

A newly discovered asteroid similar to the big chunk that struck Russia two weeks ago is set to pass Earth on Tuesday morning.

In an almost-unprecedented medical milestone, a baby born with HIV appears to have been cured by an aggressive drug treatment regimen.

How will your garden grow? With a bit of planning for spring this winter, you could enjoy fresh herbs and vegetables all summer.

The Florida sinkhole that swallowed a man Thursday night was still growing deep, hindering the rescue operations, official said Friday.

Cat owners have long assumed their pets purr because of happiness, but in reality the vocalization could mean something very different.

Thanks to a special device, a rat in North Carolina was able to transmit sensory information to a rat in Brazil.

Before a Florida sinkhole swallowed a sleeping Jeff Bush in bed late Thursday night, he might never have known he was laying on the precipice of a geologic feature that could have been decades in the making.

Great white sharks will now be protected under California’s Endangered Species Act starting on Friday. The state Fish and Game Commission approved the designation in February, forbidding the hunting, pursuing, catching, capturing or killing of the animal.

Manned space exploration, basic medical research and climate-monitoring satellites could all be endangered by the sequester.

Researchers hope they've found the remains of Cleopatra's murdered sister, Princess Arsinoe IV, who was killed after the Romans helped quash an Egyptian power struggle.

One study found that people who reported greater levels of boredom were more likely to be dead a couple decades later.

The current ban on rhino horn has sucked the animals into a "supply-and-demand extinction vortex," scientists say.

Runners that transitioned to Vibram Fivefingers had more bone injuries than those who stayed with traditional shoes.

A new study shows that the NHL Draft may be overestimating the talents of relatively older players.

Even the steel used to make Titanic II will be stronger, thanks to modern metallurgy.

There’s something off-putting, and maybe even sexist, about ranking scientists by their sex appeal.

NASA is hosting a teleconference Wednesday afternoon to announce new black hole observations from its new Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.

Meal plans, ideas and a shopping list for the new Mediterranean Diet, which boasts heart health and weight loss, if combined with exercise.