Science

Sometime today, the global population is forecast to hit 8 billion. The U.N. calls it a milestone for humanity, made possible by advances in public health and medicine. But there are also challenges.

A new report from the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London analyzed years of data on wildlife populations across the world and found a downward trend in the Earth's biodiversity.

Aerospace engineer Moriba Jah is one of 25 MacArthur Fellows this year for his work in aerospace engineering and mechanics developing tools to detect debris in space.

Here we go again. The virus is starting to surge in many European countries and there are early signs a wave may be starting in the U.S. too.

NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a test of planetary defense. Now it will determine whether the mission was able to alter the asteroid's course.

Scientists are working on a way to prevent this from happening by playing a sort of interplanetary game of pool. The idea is to use the kinetic energy of a spacecraft to deflect potential earthbound asteroids.

The telescope uses a camera with filters that can make a color map out of infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye.

Prejudice can be one of the motivating factors behind small and large hateful acts like this year's mass shooting targeting Black people in a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store. Do people learn prejudice or are they born with it? Could it be a combination of both?

NASA's $10 billion new telescope showed the world something remarkable today: an image of some of the first galaxies to form in the universe.

June's full moon gets its nickname from the strawberry harvesting season in the Northeastern U.S. It also happens to be at its closest distance to Earth in its orbit, which makes it a supermoon.