Ten months after launch, NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft neared a planned impact with its target on Monday in a ...

Uganda said on Sunday its Ebola caseload had jumped to 16 people while a further 18 people also likely had the disease, fueling ...

In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. ...

NASA has called off the scheduled Tuesday launch of its historic uncrewed mission to the moon due to a tropical storm that is ...

U.S. health officials say 4.4 million Americans have received the updated COVID-19 booster shot. The Centers for Disease Control ...

Sprawling coastal cities in South and Southeast Asia are sinking faster than elsewhere in the world, leaving tens of millions of ...

Oysters play a vital role in cleaning sea water. They’re also finding their way to the plates of some of Washington’s ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday that Japan will abolish a series of COVID-19 border restrictions in hopes of ...

NASA tries to save the world. Plus, the agency inches closer to its next moon mission, and geopolitical rivals unite in space. ...

A new study released this week “conservatively” estimates there are 20 quadrillion ants on the planet Earth—or about 2.5 ...

Uganda has confirmed seven cases of Ebola including that of a 24-year-old man who died earlier this week, and an additional seven ...

Malawi has become the first country in southern Africa to eliminate trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness, the ...

Displaced by some of the worst flooding in years, hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis now face the threat of disease. Infections ...

Commenters in China’s tightly controlled online communities are raising an angry howl at what they see as the latest outrage ...

Turkey’s plastic recycling industry is strongly criticized in a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday. The report ...

The World Health Organization warns noncommunicable diseases kill 41 million people each year, equivalent to 74 percent of all ...

For the first time in India, a domestically-made vaccine that provides protection against cervical cancer—the second-most ...

Hollywood actress and U.N. humanitarian Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to one of the worst flood-hit areas in southern ...

Officials in Uganda have confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The country’s Ministry of Health says a young man ...

A bay-breasted warbler weighs about the same as four pennies, but twice a year makes an extraordinary journey. The tiny songbird ...

Marking World Patient Safety Day, Saturday, the World Health Organization warns unsafe medication practices and errors are a ...

Two Chinese astronauts went on a spacewalk Saturday from a new space station that is due to be completed later this year. Cai ...

Research to develop a pill form of insulin is showing promise at the University of British Columbia in western Canada. The goal ...

The World Health Organization has declared an end to Ghana’s outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus after more than six weeks ...