While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

It’s no secret the deep sea is home to some strange-looking animals, so might we introduce you to yet another weirdo: the ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

"Dry skin regions (forearms and calves) were more even, richer, and functionally distinct than sebaceous (behind ears) and ...

When a dominant male dies or is kicked out by an intruding male [the] new lead male will usually adopt young pups.” “It ...

Neutrinos – you may have heard of them referred to as "ghost particles" – pass through everything because they are extremely ...

What if, his team pondered, there was some way to get a look inside the egg sac to see how a baby shark develops? Enter: the ...

If you are into planets and also like to get up pre-dawn (much easier in the Northern hemisphere now that it is winter here), ...

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

“Though a few giraffes in captivity have been known to live into their late-twenties, reaching age 21 is considered an ...

We have all the latest images of our interstellar visitor from ESA's Juice, Hubble, NASA's STEREO, and even a photobomb from ...

For starters, the tiny bird had over 800 tiny stones in its throat, way above what you’d expect. Furthermore, based on their ...