Science

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.

Natural gas production in Pennsylvania is expected to reach a new high by year’s end: 6 trillion cubic feet.

While the bulk of solar energy in Pennsylvania exists in the eastern half of the state, co-ops are popping up across western part of the commonwealth to help people go solar.

Enjoy them while you can, because according to a new analysis of data from the Keck 10 meter telescope at Mauna Kea, Saturn’s rings ...

Here’s a look at how Pennsylvania has been working to reduce emissions in 2018 and a preview of what may be in store for next year.