Astronomers have scrambled to collect as much data as possible about Earth's temporary mini moon before it leaves. They've ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

Researchers are calling for a ‘resilience index’ to be used as an indicator of policy success instead of the current focus on GDP. They say that GDP ignores the wider implications of development and ...

"Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus ... which is the largest habitat on Earth and accounts for 70 ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...