In a first, an international team of astronomers have found firm evidence of the presence of oxygen in the early universe -- only 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Kampala — Ugandan scientists have developed a drug from natural herbs that can cure malaria in about three days.

European commission launches world’s first system for classifying and banning endocrine disruptors against a barrage of criticism

What about all the carbon we've already poured into the atmosphere? If only there were a device that could take some of it back out.

Astronomers have discovered the largest planet outside our solar system orbiting two stars, at a distance that would make it potentially habitable for people, scientists announced Monday.

The way climate change and global warming are influencing the world, reports of hotter summers in the years to come doesn't exactly come as a surprise.

Japanese scientists who discovered the atomic element 113 plan to name it “nihonium,” the Riken institute said Wednesday.

The mission to demonstrate technologies needed to detect gravitational waves in space has been a stunning success.

The decision to drop textbooks that question the severity of climate change from schools in Portland, Oregon, has drawn heavy criticism from the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), which

Events like this weekend's super storm that smashed into eastern Australia are likely to become fewer in frequency in a warming world but pack more intensity when they hit, climate scientists say.