W hen a tree fell in a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon, local villagers noticed something big and very strange lurking ...

The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.

That puppy picture doesn't just cheer one person up – it can end up lifting the spirits of a vast network of people.

Data from 96 mastodon teeth reveals that the proboscidean lived in fruit-rich forests and traveled widely. Although they mostly fed on leaves, fruit was part of their diet, although more in some ...

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment floats a range of instruments above Antarctica using a stratospheric balloon. The experiment is aimed at detecting cosmic neutrinos, tiny ...

A group of teeny tiny mouse-deer in the family Tragulidae numbers 10 species that live in warmer parts of Southeast Asia, India, and Africa. They are small, delicate, and extremely elusive: they are ...

Overall, then, the answer is no – for 95 percent of shark species, the idea that they’ll keel over if they ever stop moving is simply not true. Most of them can breathe using ram ventilation; many of ...

The result of the increase, the simulation predicted, could be that the frequency of atmospheric rivers over Antarctica ...

L ast week, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS released the data behind an incredible catalog of galaxies, ...

A mounting movement is granting legal "personhood" to nature, but is it a practical solution or just a nice idea?

“We find the octopuses of these maps portraying a diverse set of enemies including religious groups, ideologies, wartime ...

“Long-exposure photos make the Milky Way’s bright stars and dark dust clouds even clearer. And while our eyes see it in ...