On January 14, 2017, Michel Breitfellner, Manuel Castillo, Abel de Burgos and Miguel Perez Ayucar set up telescopes near ESA’s Space Science Center in Madrid, Spain. They captured the International Space Center traverse the face of the moon.
Baboons are the world’s largest monkeys. They have distinctive faces and butts.
As NASA's Saturn mission skims the gas giant's rings, it's seeing incredible detail in the interactions between ring particles and a tiny moon's gravity.
Studies led by anthropologist Helen Fisher have revealed that the brain's "in love" phase is a unique and well-defined period of time, and there are 13 telltale signs that you're in it.
Over the years, the otherwise serious ceremony of swearing in the president has had a few odd moments.
Einsteinium, the 99th element, was discovered in the debris from the first hydrogen bomb test.
The volcanoes of Big Island, Hawaii have been imaged by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-2A satellite. A road along the coast line has been “discontinued” by a lava flow according to Kelsea Brennan-Wessels of ESA’s Earth From Space series.
A scholar of presidential power looks at personality, rationality and the institution of the presidency for clues about what the incoming administration can accomplish.
Climate scientists reacted with dismay, but not necessarily surprise, upon learning that President Donald Trump's new administration had removed the climate change page from the White House website.
Spurred by an innocent query posed to a biologist on Twitter, scientists are assembling a database of animal life to answer the burning question, "Does it fart?"
When a giant asteroid careened into Earth about 66 million years ago, the enormous collision led to the formation of an airborne "curtain" of sulfate molecules that blocked the sun's light and led to years of freezing cold and darkness, a new study finds.
Creating clouds in the sky or redirecting sunlight to bring down the Earth's temperature could have an effect on astronomy.
The death of a shelter cat in New York was just the start of a recent investigation.
What makes a great U.S. president? Anything from a peanut farmer to a former male model.
President Donald Trump took the oath of office in Washington D.C. today (Jan. 20) and mentioned space exploration — if for one fleeting moment — as one of the paths forward to make America great again.
Eight years ago on Friday, scientists named a climate monitoring location in a desolate bay off the Antarctic Peninsula after the 44th president to mark his inauguration.
A virus rarely seen in the United States recently infected eight people in Wisconsin and Illinois who were breeding pet rats.
New satellite images suggest ISIS has committed further destruction at the ancient site of Palmyra.
New satellite images show that further destruction has occurred at Palmyra since the ancient Syrian city was retaken by ISIS last month.
Just as aircraft flying at supersonic speeds create cone-shaped sonic booms, pulses of light can leave behind cone-shaped wakes of light. Now, a superfast camera has captured the first-ever video of these events.
People who eat chili peppers may have a lower risk of dying over a two-decade period, a new study finds.
