Elana Glowatz

The International Space Station will host five artificial organs as astronauts perform experiments to see how they respond in microgravity.

A spacecraft orbiting Mars used its telescope to take a photo of the Curiosity rover on the planet’s surface, and it really puts things into perspective.

NASA and other space authorities have launched some bizarre things into space in the last few decades, everything from a Buzz Lightyear figurine to a drawing of a penis.

Sons born to older fathers are more likely to be total geeks — intelligent, driven people who attain academic and career success.

Chimps and humans have a lot in common, like our DNA an ability to form a cultural tradition.

Physicist and doomsayer Stephen Hawking has provided a gentle reminder (predictions) that he thinks we’re all going to die if we stay on Earth.

Coffee farming land is slowly becoming unusable in one of the world’s biggest coffee producing countries as its climate changes.

When and where did cats become our pets? Researchers have traced the domestic feline’s lineage to one ancient cat species and a few civilizations.

A South Korean tech startup wants to make it easier for people to get help for depression, using a headband that sends electricity into the brain.

Archaeologists say the decapitated skeletons of these human sacrifices came from prisoners of war, kept by the ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty as slaves before killing them.

Solar and lunar eclipses are visually stunning, but they also teach us a lot about the solar system and the universe.

Urban development has isolated a clan of pumas and caused them to become genetically inbred -- and they need humans to save them from dying out.

A new type of biodegradable plastic made from sugar and carbon dioxide could be a more sustainable and renewable solution to the world’s plastic pollution problem.

Scientists have found a link between a bee’s ability to communicate and how social or lonely it behaves.

Scientists have watched DNA replicate itself up-close for the first time, and it turns out nature is random and unorganized.

Scientists found a dinosaur with a weird head shape, and they are trying to make sense of it in terms of marine reptile evolution.

Wildfires pollute the air more than scientists thought with particles that are dangerous to human hearts and lungs as well as the environment.

Scientists drew a map of ocean temperatures through the ice age and compared it carbon dioxide levels to find out how the ocean evolves as the climate changes.

China’s first X-ray telescope will investigate black holes and gravitational waves, and represents a step forward for the nation that is trying to catch up to the U.S. in space.

Canadian scientists say the environmental conditions they want to study are the same ones that caused ice conditions so dangerous they had to cancel their expedition.

Prehistoric Australia was home to flying turkeys that were as big as kangaroos and other scary-looking birds.

The next space station might be built from recycled rockets, making space habitation more sustainable.

A hormone called oxytocin, which is involved in social interactions and bonding between a mother and child, might also be what makes a mother risk her own life to protect her children in a life-threatening situation.

Ghost sharks, also known as chimaeras, are rarely seen in the wild but we know that they have sex organs on their heads and look like Leatherface, with skin that appears stitched together from scraps.

As Mars was changing from a comfortable planet with a thick atmosphere and lots of water into a dry and cold wasteland, these rocks captured evidence of those environmental changes.

The bacteria in this African animal’s anal gland create unique scents and the animal uses that distinct body odor to communicate with its kind.

The Cassini spacecraft has sent back a ton of images and data to NASA and Earth during its time in the outer solar system. Here’s a look back at some of the most amazing photos.

As science gets closer to bringing extinct animals like dinosaurs and woolly mammoths back to life, a group of researchers are trying to figure out what the heck we would call these things.

An archaeological site near a prestigious boarding school that English royals have attended, and in the same town where The Office was set, is actually a medieval grave for an important person. That makes it awkward that Eton College students historically used it for their weird rituals.