SCIENCE

At this point, astronomers don't know anything about the invisible world Kepler-19c, other than that it exists.

People respond preferentially to pictures of animals, according to a new study.

A NASA satellite is expected to make a crash landing on Earth in late September or early October. No one knows where it will land, not even NASA. It could even land on you -- but luckily, you have a better chance of winning the lottery than of having a piece of the satellite fall on your head.

A new study says natural gas would not slow down climate change: natural gas is cleaner, but from a climate perspective, it's complicated.

In the new film Contagion, a rapidly evolving virus threatens to wipe out global society and federal health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose staffers served as extras, must save the world from the killer outbreak.

Sometimes a little less equipment makes for a lot better romance, at least according to scientists who compare the anatomy of humans and chimpanzees.

NASA has delayed the GRAIL launch one more day in order to review propulsion system data from Thursday's detanking operation.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday announced the availability of two funding opportunities for community health centers to help build, expand and improve community health centers across the U.S. to provide needed care to low-income Americans.

More people chose to stick to the Weight Watchers diet, and lost more weight and fat mass, than those assigned to standard primary care, new research found.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended against an immediate approval for Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson’s anti-clotting drug, Xarelto, as a treatment to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Norovirus remained the most common food-borne disease in 2008, but more people were hospitalized for Salmonella poisoning than any other food-related illness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says in its annual report on food-borne illness.

According to recent research, ancient meteorites may have showered the Earth with gold.

Scientists in South Africa may have found the missing link in human evolution with the newly uncovered fossil of Australopithecus sediba.

A fresh analysis of nearly 2 million years old fossils of Australopithecus sediba has added to debates about the species' place in the human ancestry.

Astronomers have outdone themselves by doing the (seemingly) unimaginable: Discovering an invisible exoplanet.

The dust that blanketed Ground Zero and much of lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse was full of toxic chemicals that left a deadly mark on thousands of rescue workers.

A defunct NASA satellite is expected to plunge back to Earth, raising concerns that blazing hot debris may shower down on the unsuspecting terrestrial population.

A new blood thinner that prevents strokes and dangerous blood clots in patients with atrial fibrillation, a type of heart rhythm disorder, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel.

The sun has unleashed a series of solar flares over the last four days, but the good news is none of them are expected to travel directly toward Earth.

Scientists have discovered an “invisible” planet for the first time by observing how its gravity affects the other planet in the system.

NASA has postponed the launch of twin moon gravity-mapping spacecrafts until Saturday to give engineers time to investigate a glitch with the Delta 2 rocket that will carry the probes into space.

England, Scotland and Wales will lift a lifetime ban on blood donations by homosexual and bisexual men, but only those who have not had sex in the past 12 months will be able to donate.

Astronomers believe they have found an invisible planet, one that was never glimpsed before, revolving around its orbit in irregular intervals.

Two doses of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may be offering just as much protection against cervical cancer as the three-dose regimen which is now being used, as per a new U.S. government research.

A medical privacy breach at Stanford University’s hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. has led to the public posting of medical records for 20,000 emergency room patients, which includes names and diagnosis codes, on a commercial Web site for nearly a year, as confirmed by the hospital.

Relentless rain caused more catastrophic flooding in the northeastern United States on Thursday, killing at least five people and forcing the evacuation of more than 130,000 more in three states.

About two-million-year-old fossils of human species discovered in a South African cave in 2008 are found to be having part-human and part-ape characteristics, a recent report has revealed.

A meteorite shower is the source of complex and heavy elements such as gold on Earth as per a new study.

Almost six years after ceasing operations, NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), a seven-ton research satellite, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in late September or early October 2011.