Science

President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee Zeldin, is reportedly pursuing plans that would wipe away most federal climate change rules with a single move.

According to Bloomberg, the EPA considered scrapping "its formal conclusion that greenhouse gases endanger the public, a move that would sweep away the legal foundation for regulations limiting planet-warming pollution from power plants, automobiles and oil wells."

by Issam AHMED

Intuitive Machines made history last year as the first private company to put a robot on the Moon, although the triumph was marred by the lander tipping onto its side.

by Charlotte CAUSIT

Plummeting immunization rates, outbreaks of once-vanquished childhood diseases, and the appointment of a vocal vaccine skeptic as health secretary have U.S. experts sounding the alarm about a looming public health crisis.

by Issam AHMED

A study published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that people can transmit bird flu to their domestic cats, with fatal consequences.

by Issam AHMED

Is NASA still Moonbound, or will the next giant leap mean skipping straight to Mars?

by Issam Ahmed with Daniel Lawler in Paris

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday -- making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting.

The Trump administration's insistence that it's avoiding cutting certain healthcare workers — including those involved with disease response and Medicare — appears to be false, according to a report.

An anonymous official in the administration told Politico last week they were trying to be "thoughtful about critical functions that the government needs to perform."

Texas is experiencing a measles outbreak, which prompted physician Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to tweet about it on X and tell Americans that the measles vaccine has been "safe and effective since 1963." He was then criticized for supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment as the secretary of Health and Human Services.

Kennedy has long been a so-called "vaccine skeptic" and has spoken out specifically on the measles vaccine, questioning its efficacy and safety.

by Suy SE

Cambodian scientist Yeang Chheang has spent six decades fighting malaria -- even in the Khmer Rouge labour camp where his wife and baby died -- and stands tantalizingly close to fulfilling his life's work.

President Donald Trump complained about a "new theory" on magnets in a rant against waste, fraud, and abuse.

During Wednesday's remarks at the White House, Trump was asked how he could be sure Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency was properly cutting spending.

Two American astronauts who have been trapped on the International Space Station since June could return to Earth earlier in March than expected, NASA said Tuesday.

Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were due to spend eight days on the International Space Station (ISS), but have been there for more than eight months after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft suffered propulsion problems.

by Paulina ABRAMOVICH

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.