Recent News

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, lake-shaped basins.

With NASA's Kepler mission showing the potential to detect Earth-sized objects, habitable moons may soon become science fact.

Disaster authorities here gave stubborn villagers, living near the volcano's danger zone, until 12 midnight to move to safer ground or face force evacuation to their designated holding areas as Mt. Mayon's imminent eruption nears.

A McGill researcher has discovered a near-complete skull of a primitive "dugong" illuminating a virtually unknown period in Madagascar fossil history.

The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought

The DNA of a first-century shrouded man found in a tomb on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem has revealed the earliest proven case of leprosy.

NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite has captured five complete polar seasons of noctilucent (NLC) or "night-shining" clouds with an unprecedented horizontal resolution of 3 miles by 3 miles.

Astronomers announced that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth.

The analysis of microfossils found in ocean sediment cores is illuminating the environmental conditions that prevailed at high latitudes during a critical period of Earth history.

For most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and Vancouver Island in British Columbia.