Science

14-year-old wins 3M Young Scientist Challenge with nano...

A 14-year-old from California is America’s new top young scientist. The eighth g...

Massive planet discovered orbiting tiny star, puzzling ...

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the co...

Fluke discovery at planetarium sheds light on mysteriou...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpect...

National Science Foundation terminates research grants ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has terminated thousands of research grant...

Tyrannosaurus Rex, king of the dinosaurs

Why are we captivated with a creature that hasn't existed on Earth for about 66 ...

Passage: Nikon Small World photo winners

This week the winning pictures in the annual Nikon Small World photomicrography ...

Fungus in "agroterrorism" arrest already widely prevale...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with trying to smuggle strains of a fungus ...

Dorian becomes a Category 5 hurricane

The storm bearing down on the U.S. coastline has strengthened further. Meteorolo...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on the next giant leap for mankind

As the founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX, a private company that makes ro...

Smithsonian artifacts: The first black hole photograph

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie G. Bunch III explains to CBS New...

By The Numbers: The moon

Some facts about Earth's closest celestial neighbor from Jane Pauley.

To the Moon! Apollo 11's great adventure

Jeffrey Kluger, editor-at-large at Time magazine, recounts the human landmark of...

From 1979: Oil refinery vs. bald eagle

In Cobscook Bay, Maine, the Pittston Company's plans to build an oil refinery, w...

Preview: Mission to Mars

NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which launches for the Red Planet next summer, will fe...

Almanac: Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey

On June 23, 1894 Alfred C. Kinsey, the biologist and professor who founded the K...

Japanese probe's second straight attempt at moon landin...

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdow...