For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary ...

Frogs display incredible diversity and survival skills across the globe. From tiny toads to toxic species, their adaptations ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

Phantasticus Pictures' groundbreaking new wildlife docuseries, Vantara: Sanctuary Stories -- hosted by world-renowned wildlife biologist and adventurer Forrest Galante -- is now airing on Animal ...

Living in one of the most remote regions of the planet is the Chondrocladia sp. nov, which is covered in tiny hooks to trap ...

The formation of planets is a fascinating process. They usually originate in a disc of dust and gas surrounding stars. When particles come together, they form a clump, and through a process called ...

The discovery of a highly infectious and fatal disease has caused the Stockton Animal Shelter to close for two weeks, resulting in the suspension of adoptions and stray intakes, shelter officials said ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...

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Earth's vast oceanic biodiversity remains largely unexplored, with only a fraction of an estimated two million total living marine species formally named and described. A significant challenge is the ...

Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have thought that planets likely exist in these gaps ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...