Sphen and Magic, a male penguin couple, are now dads to their newborn foster chick. The unnamed chick weighed in at 91 grams; its sex will be determined later by a DNA test.

Only two miniscule slivers of East Island have resurfaced since the storm struck the region and wiped out a critical habitat for endangered monk seals and green sea turtles.

A sea cucumber that looks like a headless chicken has been caught on video in the deep seas near East Antarctica, thousands of miles from where one of the species was last spotted.

Proponents of the chips say they're safe and largely protected from hacking, but one scientist is raising privacy concerns around the kind of personal health data that might be stored on the devices.

As part of the initiative, MIT will hire 50 new faculty members and appoint a dean for the college, set to open in September 2019.

A new film from NOVA, “Addiction,” chronicles the rise in prescription painkillers and the explosion in opioid addiction that followed — leading to a record 72,000 overdose deaths in the year 2017 alone. The documentary explains the brain science behind addiction.

In an update on a recent security breach, Facebook says 30 million accounts were affected. For nearly half of those, hackers accessed a users' searches, locations and other details.

The new penguin couple are named Sphen and Magic, and the two males are about to take the leap into parenthood. They are often spotted together, waddling or going for a swim.

Cassini was vaporized when it plunged toward Saturn a year ago, but new papers are still coming out.

Astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin were headed to the International Space Station when their Soyuz MS-10's booster failed.