A bright fireball exploded over the Texan skies just a few days ago, and it seems to have dropped a meteorite right through ...

Sargassum is a kind of brown algae that forms massive, island-like mats of seaweed in open water. It’s the namesake of the ...

So, Tan and colleagues put the audience effect to the test by using an aspirator to remove spectator bees while a bee was ...

Many new species have been found in the region's mostly unexplored karst landscape, including a beautiful new pit viper ...

There are only around 90 documented cases, but they range from sudden music or math expertise to near-photographic memory.

O n top of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica, strange pink boulders stand starkly against a backdrop of ice, snow, and ...

If disaster strikes and you’re tasked with clearing up some radioactive ruins, hardy robots are far better suited for the ...

But that was the reality for Alexei Leonov as he floated outside of his spacecraft some 61 years ago this week. “My suit was ...

From the moment he leapt from his capsule to the moment he touched the reassuring ground, a whopping 9 minutes and 9 seconds ...

It was 1965, and Alexei Leonov had just been through a terror no human before had ever experienced: the first-ever spacewalk.

The American space agency has just announced some major changes to the lunar plans by the end of the decade and beyond.

D espite surviving for hundreds of thousands of years and conquering much of Eurasia, Neanderthals were actually pretty few ...