Researchers working off the coast of Australia are cataloging rarely seen, and even some new, species that lurk in the depths of the ocean.

Ancient sacrificial victims discovered at the Chinese archaeological site of Yinxu, 500 km south of Beijing, were probably kept as war captives before they were killed, archaeologists have said.

A new study shows lightning over the ocean–such as this strike in 2015 in California–can be much more powerful than that over land.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has claimed that building a self-sustaining colony on Mars is necessary to our future survival as a species.

NASA used several dozen ground-based telescopes to scan an extremely unusual object more than a billion miles beyond Pluto in order to send a space probe there.

Second Lady Karen Pence and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently teamed up to install a honeybee hive on the grounds of the Vice President’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. This will serve as a “great example” of what people can do to help “reverse the decline” in managed honeybee colonies around the country, the secretary said.

Uranus and Neptune have never got much attention from us – we’ve only passed each once and never hung around. But that could change. A NASA group has now outlined possible missions to make it to one of these outer worlds to gather data on their composition. This should teach us about them and similar planets in other solar systems.

It’s been nearly 12 years or 4,253 days since the last major hurricane made landfall in the U.S., which is the longest such period on record.

The Northwest Passage is blocked by very thick ice in the Beaufort Sea.

DMI Modelled ice thickness

While many have believed that an ill-placed meteor wiped out the dinosaurs, new research shows that may not have been the full story behind it.

It could have been the sun — or at least the sun’s brother.

Researchers at Tulane University have developed a new map that details the varying rates at which land is sinking along the Louisiana coast.

The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession – prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago.

Heavy sea ice off Newfoundland and southern Labrador has been an issue for months: it brought record-breaking numbers of polar bear visitors onshore in early March and April and since then has hampered the efforts of fisherman to get out to sea.

Facebook has started deploying its artificial intelligence capabilities to help combat terrorists’ use of its service.

For the first time, China has successfully sent pairs of entangled photons from a satellite in orbit to three ground stations in the country each separated by more than 1,200-km, in a major breakthrough that opens up prospects for practical quantum communications.

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore telescope has offered astronomers a detailed view of the star factory inside the Orion Nebula, one of the most famous and oft-photographed star-birthing clouds in the cosmos.