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First tropical storm warning of hurricane season issued...

Forecasters issued the first tropical storm warning of this year's hurricane sea...

First nonhuman species found to use name-like sounds fo...

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal...

How scientists are using technology to limit the spread...

Climate change means there's a growing risk of spreading tropical diseases like ...

"Once-in-a-lifetime" cosmic explosion is likely this su...

A dramatic cosmic explosion is expected this summer. NASA says the event will be...

It only takes 5 seconds of hail to damage a plane mid-f...

Photos of an Austrian Airlines flight went viral this week after a sudden hail s...

Rare 7-foot fish with a face "only a mother could love"...

The massive bony fish turns out to be a species that was "hiding in plain sight"...

Heat stress can turn deadly even sooner than experts th...

As temperatures rise, new research shows critical limits for how heat affects th...

Venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs spread across ...

"It is a matter of when, not if" the spiders are set to arrive, experts say, and...

Shark spits out land-loving creature in front of shocke...

Researchers were tagging marine when the tiger shark they caught vomited a dead ...

Wary of giant, parachuting Joro spiders? Here's what to...

They're big, they're scary-looking and they float through the air — but Joro spi...

Rare juvenile T. rex fossil found by children in North ...

The "Teen Rex" is one of just four young T. rex fossils that have been found on ...

Joro spider photos: Get up close and personal as they t...

Joro spiders can lay up to 500 eggs in a single sac and can parachute themselves...

Maps show how "Tornado Alley" has shifted in the U.S.

"Tornado Alley" used to refer to the central Plains region, but research shows n...

China claims success as lunar probe unfurls flag, colle...

China hails its lunar probe mission as a success after unfurling a Chinese flag ...

Book excerpt: "Challenger" by Adam Higginbotham

The British journalist and author of "Midnight in Chernobyl" returns with his ex...

Tiny fern breaks world record for largest genome on Earth

The New Caledonian fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has more than 50 times more D...

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