A stronomers have found an Earth-size planet orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting that maybe the fate of our world is not to be ...

A cheeky ant, stoned-looking owls, and a very goofy elephant seal are just some of the characters in this year’s finalists ...

Taken together, these findings suggest that humans cut up Yuka’s body for meat before she became frozen 39,000 years ago. As ...

A 50-year-old idea about electromagnetic waves known as the Zel’dovich effect has been tested by physicists in the lab, and ...

“By all indications, it was a failed test. It’s a big hole in the ground,” Pavel Podvig, an analyst based in Geneva, who runs ...

L ife isn’t easy under the sea, but luckily its resident creatures have evolved all sorts of clever tricks to keep themselves ...

B race yourself to meet the Lammergeier, a bone-crushing bearded vulture that dyes its feathers red with baths in springs of ...

An instrument aboard Solar Orbiter has delivered incredible observations of fully developed turbulence so close to the Sun.

Unlike the mottled grey adults, grey seal pups have fluffy white coats when they are born. The pups feed on their mother's milk, which is extremely high in fat; this helps the pups to grow and put on ...

And yet, that’s where we find ourselves – because that’s exactly what has happened. This April saw the birth by cesarean section of Dakota, a male baby porcupine from San Diego Zoo, thanks to a ...

At the other end of the spectrum, however, when the definition requires that a wetland must be permanently flooded to be ...

As long as no foul is called, the President will then open the dreaded nuclear football. Inside is the so-called "Black Book" ...