The system gives the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency access to billions of license plate records and new powers of real-time location tracking.

Enhanced color image from Juno

Vladimir Putin has joked that the fired FBI director James Comey is welcome to seek asylum in Russia. Speaking in his annual question and answer session in Moscow, the Russian President said it was "very strange" that the FBI official had l ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a quasar named 3C 186 that is offset from the center of its galaxy. Astronomers hypothesize that this supermassive black hole was jettisoned from the center of its galaxy by the recoil from gravitationa ...

The object is 530 kilometers across, and lurks in a region beyond Pluto  

Scientists have found a handful of genes that they may be linked to the tendency for dogs to seek human help and contact

30 September 2016 Astronomy Now

Before accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, Arnold Palmer shared a few laughs with President George W. Bush and gave the commander in chief a few golf tips in the East Room of the White House.

The sources of X-rays observed in space have been contended for decades. The DXL sounding rocket provided insight into the source of some -- but this small mission also found an entire group of X-rays that don’t come from any known source.

In stunning and tragic news, one of baseball's preeminent young stars, Marlins right-hander Jose Fernandez, died in a boating accident …

More than half of all stars are thought to be in binary or multiple star systems. But how do these systems form? The misaligned spins of some binary protostars might provide a clue.

Living in voids might be tangentially responsible for three small galaxies’ recent flurries of starbirth.

The Darwin’s Dogs citizen science project is collecting canine DNA to better understand dog genetics and behavior.

Astronomers capture rare images of a white dwarf - before, during and after it exploded as a "classical nova".

No one wanted to be near my family.

Brain scan study reveals hodgepodge effects of sleep deprivation.

Scientists are carefully measuring the Higgs boson’s properties.

The FBI's director says the agency is collecting data that he will present next year in hopes of sparking a national conversation about law enforcement's increasing inability to access...

"He was an extraordinary writer and reporter, and a true gentleman," said Anderson Cooper

A new study, using an existing drug for dementia, has shown that it may be effective against Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a type of neurodegenerative disease that affects the muscles. The disease is progressive, and it can take several ...