NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

The Museum of Science Fiction and Fantasy Arts in Warren is one step closer to blastoff after receiving a $2.3 million grant ...

Johns Hopkins University said crews are cutting down nine trees in Wyman Park as part of work to construct new academic ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The city of St. Petersburg has accelerated its flood infrastructure projects and hopes to keep the sewers flowing during the upcoming hurricane season, according to Mayor Ken ...

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science ...

A key part of the Okefenokee Swamp was rescued by conservationists from mining, but this natural habitat is still in danger, ...

Scientists are racing to rescue hundreds of datasets, websites and federal reports that have been deleted by the ...