Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

Sitting in low Earth orbit, the International Space Station offers astronauts aboard some spectacular views, including this ...

Researchers show algae can grow in Mars-like atmospheric pressure conditions. If humans are ever to establish permanent ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's associated with lightning.

This 2011 astronaut photo shows the atolls of Rowley Shoals lined up in a near-perfect line off the coast of Australia. The ...

A Google search will say she’s Atlassian billionaire Scott Farquhar’s wife. But this veteran dealmaker has plenty of main ...

Water’s my jam.” Dituri did apply to be an astronaut in 2024; he never heard back. Although he meets current qualifications, ...

Antarctic krill, a tiny crustacean whose dense shoals (pictured) can be seen from space, are targeted for harvest because they produce an oil that humans love, and which is also used to fatten salmon ...

Why penguin poop makes krill swim for their lives A new study shows that the mere presence of poop prompted the crustaceans to launch into evasive maneuvers.

The foul stench of penguin poop sets Antarctic krill on edge. In lab experiments, the mere scent of penguin droppings — or guano — sent krill scrambling for escape, researchers report March 20 ...

Imagine looking at the world through the stalked compound eyes of krill in the Southern Ocean. All of a sudden, a penguin appears like a voracious giant, streamlined like a torpedo, chasing and ...