Cancer patients increasingly are having their care guided by molecular tumor boards, Experts study the patient's cancer genes and match treatments to mutations that seem to drive the disease.

A violent collision of two super-dense neutron stars in a distant galaxy has helped astronomers uncover cosmic secrets, including where gold comes from. Scientists revealed that detectors picked up the crash's faint signals in mid-August.

Russia successfully launched a satellite into orbit Friday that will monitor Europe's atmosphere, helping to study air pollution.

A potentially groundbreaking treatment for a rare form of blindness moved one step closer to U.S. approval Thursday, as federal health advisers endorsed the experimental gene therapy.

On Thursday, U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers will consider whether to recommend approval of a gene therapy that improved vision for these three youths and some others with hereditary blindness.

NASA astronauts took another spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, this time to grease the robot arm's new hand.

Technology now in limited use removes about 90 percent of carbon dioxide from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, but energy experts say cost remains the chief obstacle to bringing "clean coal" into the mainstream.

Six decades after Sputnik, a refined version of the rocket that put the first artificial satellite in orbit remains the mainstay of Russia's space program - a sign it has failed to build upon its achievements.

Three researchers based in the U.S., U.K. and Switzerland won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for developing a way to create exquisitely detailed images of the molecules driving life.

Three scientists on Tuesday won a Nobel Physics Prize for their roles in detecting faint ripples flying through the universe - gravitational waves predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein.

The European Space Agency says scientists have pieced together a final image of a comet's surface taken by its Rosetta probe just before its mission ended in a slow-motion crash a year ago.

The $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope project on Thursday won key state approval to join other telescopes atop the dormant volcano, but passionate protesters vowed to continue fighting construction on land that's sacred to Native Hawaiians.

Almost three decades later after a killer disguised as a clown gunned down a victim, authorities say they have arrested a suspect: A woman who was said to be having an affair with Warren's husband and, years after the killing, married him.

Australia announced on Monday it will create its own space agency to increase its share of the $330 billion space economy.

In a quest to end cookie-cutter health care, U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and lifestyles interact and affect health.