Digital imaging is shedding new light on ancient papyrus manuscripts, allowing researchers to piece together "lost" plays, poetry, Christian gospels, and even steamy novels.

During the 15 years since it was launched, the Hubble Space Telescope has racked up an impressive array of discoveries and snapshots of our universe.

NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope has spied a huge ring of cosmic debris around a "twin" of our own sun.

A new computer model that uses data from midsummer winds can predict the likelihood of hurricanes striking the United States later in the year, researchers say.

A tiny tropical ant uses a fungus-lined trap to stretch out prey like victims on a medieval torture rack, a new report says.

Infant and adult sleep are strikingly similar,a new study on rats says. The could help reveal the functions of this essential state.

Scientists have gained better understanding of the asteroid crash that most likely took out the dinosaurs and much other life on Earth.

In 1905 Albert Einstein published revolutionary theories that gave us physics as we know it. Now a new theory may be the one he "spent 30 years searching for."

National Geographic has launched the Genographic Project, which will use DNA to trace how human populations dispersed from Africa to the rest of the world.

New insights into the human brain may aid the development of prosthetic devices that help paralyzed people to move or communicate simply by thinking.

DNA evidence has so far exonerated 14 men on death rows in the U.S. Legal applications are growing, but so are problems.

Many of us say "Eew!" when we see a cockroach. But engineers looking to a design a new robot antenna said "Eureka!"

Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard hopes to make history with an around-the-world flight in a solar-powered airplane. Will it work?

Half of the known planetary systems outside our solar system could harbor Earthlike planets conducive to life, a new study says.

By peering into the deep belly of the universe, scientists have learned how massive black holes, galaxies, and stars grow together.