Bode's Galaxy is one of the brightest galaxies that can be seen from the Earth. It is high in the northern sky in the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. At an apparent magnitude of 6.8 it...

New SciFi movie Avatar Images Show Airships, Sigourney Weaver, And Weird Head Accidents Futuristic airships streak across an alien sky, in a newly released image from James Cameron's Avatar. The...

Humans might not be walking the face of the Earth were it not for the ancient fusing of two prokaryotes — tiny life forms that do not have a cellular nucleus. Endosymbiosis refers to a cell living...

Humans might not be walking the face of the Earth were it not for the ancient fusing of two prokaryotes — tiny life forms that do not have a cellular nucleus. Endosymbiosis refers to a cell living...

NASA is looking at bringing nuclear power to other planets. It's an intelligent option, perfectly suited to off-world exploration, and is being rigorously tested - so look forward to headlines...

“In the quest for Earth-like planets, we have now identified numerous systems which are excellent candidates to harbor them. Where they persist as white dwarfs, any terrestrial planets will likely...

The popular theory that Mexico's Chicxulub Crater, discovered in 1978, holds the clue to the demise of the dinosaurs, along with some 65 percent of all species 65 million years ago, has been...

The Antennae Galaxies are among the closest known merging galaxies. The two galaxies, also known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, began interacting a few hundred million years ago, creating one of the...

"Creating Artificial Personalities" (An Evolutionary Step Toward Replacing the Human Species?) "The Great Silence": Why Haven't Signs of Intelligent Extraterrestial Life Been Discovered? Is a...

If you care about our fellow inhabitants of the planet, don't miss this trailer for The Cove, a documentary about Japan's slaughter of 23,000 dolphins a year in a hidden cove of Taiji, Japan.