A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem.

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Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...

High numbers of bear sightings have been reported in South Mississippi recently and there are a number of reasons why.

Seventy years can feel like a long enough stretch for an ecological experiment to settle into history, but the story of ...

Discover the world’s fastest animals! These 5 incredible creatures leave the cheetah far behind in speed records.

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

A Stanford study has uncovered ruptosis, a rapid immune defence in flatworms where specialised cells explode to destroy ...

The Arctic does not often give up its secrets quickly. Ice, distance, and long stretches of darkness have a way of preserving stories that would disappear elsewhere.

Shark nets aim to catch potentially dangerous sharks close to popular swimming areas. However, this method can also kill non-dangerous sharks and a range of other marine animals such as rays, turtles ...

Stanford scientists have discovered a new type of immune cell that kills surrounding cells via explosion—a cellular detonation so fast and complete that the cell vanishes within minutes, leaving no ...

(WPRI) — A loud boom was heard in the skies above Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday afternoon that could be heard across other areas of Southern New England. Nexstar’s 12 News received reports from ...