King penguins might die out soon if nothing is done to combat climate change, scientists say. Researchers have studied the penguins’ small...
Lunar missions have provided evidence that there is water on the moon, and that it is distributed across the surface, not just...
An amateur astronomer got incredibly lucky while testing his camera one night – he accidentally captured several images of a star moving...
Neanderthals may have been the first artists of Europe, and of humankind, a group of scientists claim. The first known artwork in...
The dumbo octopus is perhaps one of the deep sea’s most charming creatures – it glows white in the depths of the...
A six-year-old girl wrote a letter to NASA, asking the space agency to “make Pluto a planet again.” The letter, sent last...
Six Israeli researchers completed a four-day Mars habitat experiment at the Desert Mars Analog Ramon Station (D-MARS) project of Israel’s Space Agency...
A new examination of one of master artist Pablo Picasso’s famous works revealed that he painted over a landscape created by another...
One of Earth’s most dazzling natural phenomena are the brilliant moving lights of the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the Northern...
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting at a fast space, speeding up the already quick rate of sea level increases,...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft broke a record of farthest images captured in space, taking photos from a distance of 3.79 billion miles...
In a big step forward for robotics, researchers have designed a fully functional electronic skin, which they say will allow robots to...
The massive asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs millions of years ago may have ignited a chain of catastrophic volcanic eruptions on...
The ozone layer is planet Earth’s line of defense against harmful ultraviolet radiation. Since the 1970s, global ozone has been deteriorating, due...
Two cosmonauts set a new record for the longest Russian spacewalk after going out of the International Space Station to conduct a...
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency just may be catching up to other large space agencies – it made history by setting the...
Mexican archeologists have found a burial site that is 2,400 years old containing a bizarre sight: ten skeletons formed in a circular...
People who act nervous around dogs are often told to remain calm because “dogs can smell fear.” As it turns out, there...
A long-lost NASA satellite has been found again, thanks to an amateur astronomer, the space agency announced. The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global...
Norway’s melting glaciers have revealed over 2,000 artifacts that were buried in the ice for thousands of years. And since the items...