Ferdinand T. Day Elementary School equips young girls for STEM fields while preparing for engineering competitions.

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, landing in Kazkhstan after wrapping up her record-setting 328-day mission in space.

How we take care of our bodies, minds and health evolves over time for a number of reasons. While some of those changes get forgotten (like low-fat everything and shake weights, thank goodness), some health trends gain attention because there’s science behind them and we’re better off for adopting them. Here are a few such wellness trends that came into vogue...

People in parts of Southern Asia caught a glimpse of a “ring of fire” solar eclipse Thursday.

Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that threatened to set back the company’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year. The Starliner descended into the Army’s White Sands Missile Range in the frigid predawn darkness, ending a two-day demo that should have lasted...

Researchers from Texas A&M and the University of Washington are planning to study a slowed aging process pill on dogs.

Find out how you can watch the Super Blood Wolf Moon and how this lunar eclipse got its rad name.

NASA’s seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blotting out the sun. Officials said Wednesday they’re hopeful the rover will survive the storm, which already covers one-quarter of Mars and is expected to encircle the planet in another few days. It could be weeks or even...

As part of the crew digging a subway extension under the streets of Los Angeles, Ashley Leger always keeps her safety gear close by.

Scientists say they’ve unearthed fossil remains of a sea cow that lived off Southern California’s Channel Islands some 25 million years ago.

According to a new study in Sweden, owning a dog could help you live longer. Scientists followed more than 3 million adults for 12 years.

Radio host Carroll “Mr.C” Hynson remembers one of Maryland’s most famous black beaches — Carr’s Beach in Annapolis, Maryland.

A federal climate report says the United States is already feeling the effects of climate change, with temperatures rising dramatically over the last four decades. That’s according to The New York Times, which acquired a draft copy of the report by scientists from 13 federal agencies. The report says extreme heat waves have become more common and extreme cold waves...

How long has our species been around? New fossils are pushing the evidence back by about 100,000 years. The bones are about 300,000 years old, and they were found in Morocco. Scientists say that doesn’t mean our species first appeared there. It’s still not clear when or where in Africa that happened. Before now, the oldest known fossils of Homo...

Peggy Whitson and Jack Fisher completed a nearly three-hour emergency spacewalk to repair a failed computer

Thousands of people gathered in downtown Los Angeles to join a nationwide March for Science on Saturday, April 22, 2017.

A moon orbiting Saturn has all the right ingredients to sustain life. NASA scientists say “Enceladus,” Saturn’s sixth largest moon, could theoretically sustain microbial life, in an exciting development for researchers. (Note: all graphics are artist renderings courtesy of NASA)

Two astronauts left the International Space Station on Friday to prepare the orbiting laboratory for the arrival of commercial space taxis and to tackle some maintenance.