A bomb explosion has killed more than 30 people and wounded 20 others in eastern Congo. The blast followed a clash between ...

A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern ...

China’s population is projected to fall by more than California’s current population in the next 10 years—and that is only ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

India is forecast to remain the country with the largest population, growing from 1,419,316,933 people today to 1,482,525,207 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orlando Utilities Commission safety team's preliminary investigation of an incident early Thursday that was initially reported as an "unknown explosion" at an OUC substation has ...

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

The Trump administration claims 2 million non-citizens departed the U.S. this year, mostly "voluntarily." We examine its pressure tactics, including ICE raids and arrests at green card appointments.

Beneath the Bay of Naples, the ground has been slowly but relentlessly lifting for two decades, rising more than 1.4 meters ...

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding ...