"Everyone in the control room let out a loud 'Oooooh!' at the same time. We were all enchanted," a researcher said.

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

An American Airlines pilot revealed the grim history behind the 'engineering evolution' of aeroplane windows - and why it was ...

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science recently revealed that they have ...

The Illinois State Museum in Springfield is a celebration of the state’s rich cultural and natural heritage. From woolly ...

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

P erplexing white blobs have been washing up on the shores of Newfoundland, Canada, in recent months, and one team of ...

Most parents probably know that their children aren’t going to be 100% open and honest with them. There are always going to ...

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.

The warty comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi, a fascinatingly weird creature that can regenerate parts of its body, reproduce from a larval stage, and even fuse its body with other comb jellies in order to ...

Experts from University College London say that the mysteries surrounding Uranus may have been the result of a powerful solar ...

In the fight against climate change scientists have invented some weird and wonderful ways to cut greenhouse ... In 2009, climate scientist Ken Caldeira at the Carnegie Institution for Science ...