Science

Wanna get your hands dirty in astronomy? Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is a newly revised version of a Zooniverse Citizen Scientist data-mini ...

Pittsburgh researchers are working on potentially cheaper ways to capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants.

Friday's letter to Microsoft leaders is the latest instance of U.S. technology workers standing up to their companies over the companies' lines of business or policies.

Programs in municipalities around Philly are adjusting as China’s stricter standards for recyclable materials appear permanent.

Three Mile Island might close down this year. But operators at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station hope to stay in business until at least 2053.

Historic preservationists hope the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing will persuade the United Nations to protect Armstrong's footprints in the lunar dust.

Some humans here on Earth think so, now that the Opportunity rover’s mission has ended.

Of the 8 million vehicles registered in Pennsylvania, just 15,000 of them are electric.

Astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday.

Math is a discipline of logic, but for lots of us, it may as well be magic: a force as powerful as it is unattainable. The “math anxiou ...

NASA's Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, was pronounced dead Wednesday.

Jobs in Pennsylvania’s solar industry grew 10 percent last year while declining three percent nationally, according to a new analysis.

Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the discoverer of nuclear fission.

Astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have detected that our Milky Way galaxy, while ...

Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, is hoping to control mosquitoes, and the diseases they carry, by switching off their enormous appetite.