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The flight was scheduled to launch Tuesday but high winds along the Florida coast forced a one-day delay. T ...

Kate Biberdorf, also known as Kate the Chemist on social media, joins TODAY to share fun experiments you can do at home to keep the kiddos entertained all summer.

A crucial National Weather Service office, battered by cuts, is trying to put on a brave face as tornado season peaks.

Three supermassive black holes are gobbling up stars 10 times the size of the sun. Shredding them is creating the biggest explosions since the dawn of the universe.

The woman contracted a fatal infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba and died eight days after developing symptoms.

New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will continue to warp the environment.

In searching for the elusive Planet Nine, researchers instead turned up a different resident in our cosmic backyard.

The mysterious particles called muons are considered heavier cousins to electrons. They wobble like a top when inside a magnetic field, and scientists are studying that motion to see if it lines up with the foundational rulebook of physics called the ...

The plume is expected to hit Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi late this week and into the weekend.

A surfer's board was bitten by a shark at Montara State Beach outside San Francisco, leading to a temporary closure of the park. But scientists say these encounters are relatively rare, with only 47 unprovoked shark encounters worldwide in the last . ...