Earth’s magnetic field plays a key role in making our planet ... the seafloor as the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere and the ocean increased. These weird animals barely resembled life today — ...

Exoplanets in binary star systems usually orbit both stars, but astronomers have now spotted three planets orbiting one or ...

Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day ...

At school, wildlife is pretty straightforward. Kids are told about lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!). But sometimes, the animal kingdom springs a surprise creature on us. Hybrids are unexpected ...

Video of cell division occurring in a developing fly embryo named winner of the 14th annual Nikon Small World in Motion ...

While this may seem like pure fantasy, a recent study suggests that a “third state” of existence might actually be present in ...

At COP16, a meeting under the Convention of Biological Diversity, countries will negotiate a plan to manage access to DSI, or ...

It’s a bug you’ve probably never heard of before, but it’s a pretty good bet you can find them right in your backyard.

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.

One of the oldest organisms on Earth The creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) survives in the Mojave, North America’s driest desert, by growing extremely slowly - only when water is available.

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter ... A lot of these moons resemble Earth's moon in many ways. For example, they orbit their parent planets in the ...