At the Robopalooza festival in the California desert, engineers are stress-testing space robots, which they say could someday build the infrastructure needed to settle the moon and beyond.

The Justice Department finds Memphis police regularly violate the civil rights of citizens, engaging in unconstitutional tactics like excessive use of force and discriminating against Black residents.

NPR has rounded up more than 350 of our favorite books this year. Today, we're focusing on biographies and memoirs.

Syrians in Aleppo are cautiously optimistic as rebel groups take over Assad-regime held areas of their country.

A new study projects just how bad things could get for biodiversity if global warming speeds up. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that under the most extreme warming scenarios, about one in three ...

Backlash against massive solar energy farms drove strong rural turnout in Nevada may have helped flip the presidential vote ...

Gov.-elect Mike Braun has begun putting together his cabinet. He announced his picks for the secretaries of management and ...

Scientists have an idea of how bird flu would have to evolve in order to spread more easily among humans: a mutation in one protein on the virus' surface could help it bind better human cells.

The U.S. has been developing a powerful telescope connected to the world's largest digital camera. Once fully operational, the Vera Rubin Observatory will be able to produce a full image of the sky.

The political instability in France — and simultaneously in Germany, where the governing coalition collapsed a month ago — ...

Two people who were diagnosed with cancer during childhood describe how the experience interrupted their educations -- and eventually led them to vocations in the medical field as adults.

The mission to take four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back, previously targeting a launch at the end of 2025, has ...