Three black astronauts joined hundreds of other mourners Saturday at a memorial service for pioneering African American mathematician and NASA researcher Katherine Johnson. Johnson, who calculated rocket trajectories and Earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers, died Feb. 24 at the...

How many dimensions does the cosmos have? If we're talking about string theory, it could be 10, or 11, or 26 dimensions. But if we're talking about "Cosmos," the TV series made famous by the late astronomer Carl Sagan 40 years ago, there are now three dimensions. It all started with the original "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," which brought cosmic topics such as stellar...

Video from the scene shows a woman saying, "I just want one packet." But the person with the cartful of toilet paper says, "No, not one...

Cuomo announced that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in New York has surged to...

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft made history in 2012 by becoming the first ever commercial spacecraft to dock with the ISS. Last night, the space company sent the first-gen Dragon on its 20th resupply and its last mission ever -- starting in October, SpaceX will use the upgraded Dragon 2 capsule for it ISS trips. That's not even the only reason this mission is far from your typical resupply run....

Researchers believe that "34 unobserved founder patients" with "mild symptoms" triggered the spread of COVID-19 outside mainland...

Spring fever alerts may have to be issued across the bulk of the United States in the coming days as warm air builds from the Great Plains to the Eastern Seaboard.High pressure sitting over the eastern two thirds of the country will provide dry conditions and springlike warmth to these areas this weekend. "Even though most record highs this time of the year are likely to be out of reach...

As demand for masks increases, they have been reported stolen from hospitals and other facilities where they are necessary, like a Harvard...

Abdu Sharkawy's post, shared more than 300,000 times, said the biggest danger is people's selfish behavior in a...

Around 38 people have been rescued from the Xinjia Hotel, but it remains unclear what caused the...

The coronavirus tends to spread via droplets passed between people. But viral particles can also live on surfaces for a...

"We've not yet seen an epidemic or pandemic in our lifetimes of this size and...

Misting tunnels, spray guns, and robots are sanitizing public places. But experts are still debating the...

An 84-year-old woman who attends synagogue with a man diagnosed with the coronavirus has been isolated, but says she's not worried about getting...

China CDC released a report online on Feb. 17 that overall found 2.3% of confirmed cases died. However, the fatality rate was 14.8% in people 80 or older, likely reflecting the presence of other diseases, a weaker immune system, or simply worse overall health. By contrast, the fatality rate was 1.3% in people in their 50s, 0.4% in people in their 40s, and 0.2% in people 10 to 39.Masked tourists...

Phuket, Thailand, and Penang, Malaysia, both barred the Costa Fortuna. Cruise travel has become a nightmare for many as the coronavirus...

Staff at Marathon’s Turtle Hospital in the Florida Keys are in the process of determining if a green sea turtle rescued by state wildlife officers Monday can ever be released back to the...

Washing your hands more is one of the most effective things you can do to combat the...

Dr. Syra Madad, an infectious disease outbreak expert based in New York, is featured in the Netflix docuseries "Pandemic: How to Prevent an...

"There's no excuse for this," Debbi Loftus told CNN after finding out 21 people on her cruise ship tested positive for coronavirus from news...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket sent the company's last first-generation Dragon cargo capsule on a resupply run to the International Space Station tonight, and then went on to notch a milestone of its own. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:50 p.m. ET (8:50 p.m. PT). The uncrewed Dragon is carrying about 4,000 pounds of supplies and payloads, including a...

Seattle-based Xplore has selected two new technologies for propelling and refueling its Xcraft spacecraft as it makes its way to the moon and beyond. Xplore is designing Xcraft to serve as a "space as a service" platform for payloads heading beyond Earth orbit, to the moon, Mars, Venus and other deep-space destinations. Founded by veteran investors Jeff and Lisa Rich, the company aims to...

"He can come on board if he wants and serve us our food and bring me my towel," a Grand Princess passenger...

As several states across the country geared up for Super Tuesday, residents in parts of Tennessee were bracing for severe thunderstorms that ending up producing devastating tornadoes and claiming dozens of lives. One survivor of the outbreak says AccuWeather's app may have helped save him. Meanwhile, lack of rain in California could mean a devastating - and early -wildfire season. Here's a...