Found: A Lost Continent! (Really)

A return to the moon is gaining traction. A trip to an asteroid looks iffy. And Mars is still the ultimate destination. The space program did not get much attention in last year’s presidential race.

Frogs and amphibians can nab an fly with remarkable speed – but the real secret of their bug-catching prowess is in the saliva. Unlike human spit, sticky frog saliva is a non-Newtonian fluid.

Government investigators may be worried about a potentially dangerous defect found in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets – an issue that could compromise the safety of astronauts who are supposed to fly on the vehicle as soon as next year, the Wall Street …

Robotic birds and winged insects are relatively easy to create, but with over 40 joints in their wings, bats offer a new level of intricacy.

It’s official: A 3-billion-year-old “lost continent” lurks beneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, new research confirms.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Norwegian zoologists have found about 30 plastic bags and other plastic waste in the stomach of a beaked whale that had beached on a southwestern Norway coast.

A robotic spacecraft launched in September to return samples from an asteroid will spend about 10 days this month on a side job hunting for asteroids that may be accompanying Earth as it orbits the sun.

It was a stunning sight at Kilauea volcano. A so-called firehose of lava pouring into the Pacific Ocean. That ended today with the collapse of a large sea cliff.

OSLO, Feb 2 Sweden set a goal on Thursday of phasing out greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, among the most ambitious by any developed nation and ignoring uncertainty about climate change policies under U.S.

The only thing cooler than a volcano is an ice volcano, obviously. Scientists think they’ve spotted these mounds of icy rock—called cryovolcanoes—on many moons, such as Triton, Europa, Titan, and demoted planet Pluto (sorry, Pluto).

A study by researchers from the University of Michigan has found how spaceflight alters the brains of astronauts. The findings showed that different parts of the astronauts’ brains compress and expand as they travel in space.

Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, answers questions from senators during a confirmation hearing in January.

There is a lot of angst in the air over the future of climate science now that the White House is occupied by a president who has referred to the global climate change scare as a hoax.

Your parents probably told you to NEVER look directly at the sun with your naked eye. In fact, you’ve probably been told that by lots of reputable sources (including our own Space.

The idea that the universe may be a hologram may be too radical or outrageous for most of us, but scientists have been mulling over the notion for some decades now.

Physicists have drawn up construction plans for a large-scale quantum computer. These super-fast machines promise to revolutionise computing, harnessing the world of quantum mechanics to solve problems that are beyond reach for even the most …

As Homo sapiens, and our Neanderthal cousins before us, began spreading around the planet from Africa starting tens of thousands of years ago, the waves of migration led to a mixing of DNA among different human populations in various parts of the world …

Almost 50 years after masses mobilized at the nation’s first Earth Day, there’s a new call to rally in defense of the planet: The March for Science, held in San Francisco, Washington D.C.