SCIENCE

While many eyes were turned to the giant ball in New York's Times Square as the countdown clock hit zero and 2012 became 2013, the Sun was putting on its own New Year’s Eve celebration -- and NASA captured the stunning eruption on video.

A new study finds evidence that certain dinosaurs waved feathery tail fans around to entice the opposite sex.

A new study suggests that rushing to calm a temperamental infant might weaken the baby's ability to fall back asleep unaided.

Astronomers studying a five-planet system around a red dwarf have calculated that star-orbiting planets are the norm in our galaxy.

William Shatner reached out to an astronaut currently in space on Twitter and received a response that has ignited the imagination of fans across the Internet. Future plans could be arranged that would allow a full dialogue between Shatner and the astronaut.

On the latest episode of Dr. Oz, the good doctor promotes red palm oil as a diet miracle. But is it?

Though relatively small, Black Beauty is the first Martian meteorite linked to the planet's surface and is set to greatly enhance scientists' understanding of the Red Planet's geology.

The No. 1 strategy for maintaining your resolve throughout the long slog of the year is to take baby steps, according to psychologists.

An unpublished report on fracking prepared by New York State's Health Department and obtained by news organizations said fracking likely poses little risk to residents.

A man underwent surgery to remove what researchers nicknamed a "hairy eyeball tumor" called a limbal dermoid, which has hair growing out of the eye tumor.

Panda blood contains a powerful antibiotic that kill drug-resistant bacteria and fungi.

Neil Armstrong lied about inventing his famous "one small step" line on the spot, according to a new biopic.

One rare side effect of concussions can be blood clot formation in the brain, but Clinton's short hospital stay suggests her condition is not as serious as that.

The New Year's Eve ball drop tradition, which traces its origins back to 19th-century timekeeping, is now much more electronic than when it began in 1907.

Quadrantids will be zipping overhead from Tuesday to Sunday, but the peak of the shower is expected very early on Thursday, just before dawn.

Stranded whales are often hurt beforehand, and once stranded are slowly crushed by their own weight.

Stargazers next fall may find the moon is not the brightest object in the night sky. As the newly discovered Comet ISON passes close to the sun between October and December next year, it indeed might become bright enough to outshine the moon.

Too many people were involved in important science stories this year to list them all, but here are some of our favorites.

After Winter Storms Draco and Euclid, a new system is forming that could dump even more snow on the U.S. from Ohio to Maine.

Mountain ranges on Hawaii’s Oahu island are dissolving and may one day no longer exist, according to researchers from Brigham Young University.

2012 saw the first private spacecraft docking at the International Space Station and a host of discoveries in the depths of space.

A native chief in Canada is the latest in a long tradition of hunger strikers to risk health and life for a cause.

When will the first “Alien Earth” planet be found? Some astronomers predict the discovery of a planet resembling our own to be uncovered in 2013.

Kids smoking marijuana early in life were more likely to have an earlier onset of psychotic symptoms, but teens showing early signs of psychotic symptoms were more likely to smoke pot later in life.

Too long have winter storms raged in anonymity. The Weather Channel is changing that.

Winter Storm Euclid is arriving just in time to foul up holiday travel plans across the Eastern Seaboard after dumping plenty of snow west of the Mississippi.

Dutch researchers have found a link between pot use and psychosis among teenagers. They also found that the link may run in the opposite direction: that there is a tie between teenagers with psychotic symptoms and later marijuana use.

A severe weather system recently touched down in Mobile, Ala., killing at least three people in the area while blasting through parts of Mississippi and Louisiana.

A white Christmas it will be for many residents of Maryland, Pennsylvania and other Northeast states that got an unexpected gift on Christmas Eve, when the skies opened up in the mid-afternoon and dropped several inches of snow across the mid-Atlantic region.