Science

Industrial growth and raw sewage in the region in the 20th century killed aquatic life in much of the Delaware River and surrounding streams.

Hidden beneath what looks, and smells, like much cleaner water are potential new dangers like plastics, pharmaceuticals and the impacts of climate change.

This map provides an interactive display of streams throughout Pa., N.J. and Del., showing which the states have declared unclean for swimming and fish consumption.

The National Science Foundation awarded Delaware $19 million over the next five years to fund research into improving water quality and reducing the impact of rising seas.

The more scientists learn about black holes, the more the findings confirm the warning: Speed kills. The black hole ASASSN-14li lie ...

Last year was the second rainiest on record in Philadelphia, with a total 61.6 inches over the year.

Go to med school, earn an M.D. and the “Dr.” honorific gets tacked on to your last name. Some women — and Ph.D.s — say they get the courtesy title, and respect, less often.

It was another good year for New Jersey’s bald eagles, a study released by the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife found.

Scientists discover more evidence that suggest female artisans 1,000 years ago were not as rare as previously thought.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft continues its sojourn through the outer reaches of our solar system. For the next 20 months, it will ...

A Caribbean island once full of lush trees and teeming with wildlife is nearly completely deforested and undergoing a mass extinction event.

The Surfrider Foundation's 2018  "State of the Beach Report Card" has given the state a failing grade for its "inadequate protection of coastal communities and resources."

The six-wheeled rover landed in the southern section of the Von Kármán crater, near the moon's south pole, Chinese media reported.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived the most distant exploration of another world, a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles away that looks to be shaped like a peanut.

About a billion miles beyond Pluto, a spacecraft is closing in on an icy minor planet — a mysterious little place that's only about 20 miles across.