Researchers have found a new "supergiant" species of an isopod known as Bathynomus raksasa in the waters off Indonesia for the first time, measuring more than one foot in length.
Local authorities on Tuesday gave final approval to a plan that will release 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys over a two year period, with the hope of controlling a type of mosquito that carries diseases such as the Zika virus.
"Jurassic Park" showed raptors as hyper-intelligent dinosaurs that hunted in packs, but a new analysis of their teeth shows this likely wasn't the case.
SpaceX on Tuesday launched its Falcon 9 rocket for a record-breaking sixth flight before successfully landing the vehicle on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Greenland ice sheet has reached a "point of no return" and will continue to shrink even if global temperatures stopped rising today, according to a new study.
NASA may have updated its plan to protect the planet from asteroid strikes, but a space rock the size of a pickup truck zipped past the planet at a distance of approximately 1,830 miles on Sunday, the closest ever recorded. And the space agency didn't see it until after it happened.
NASA surpassed a "big milestone" on its latest mission to Mars, as the space agency was successfully able to power up the helicopter attached to the Perseverance rover, known as Ingenuity.
Nearly two weeks after Tropical Storm Isaias roared up the East Coast killing several and knocking out power to millions, the storm left behind a unique remnant on New York's Long Island.
The Pentagon's announcement establishing a task force to "detect, analyze and catalog" unidentified aerial phenomena is a welcome addition in the now very public search for UFOs, albeit one with its own controversies, according to one expert.