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.

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The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new ...

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 ...

Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated US territory and Pacific island wildlife refuge with a complicated military history, is no ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

A tiny, obscure animal often sold as aquarium food has been quietly protecting our planet from global warming by undertaking ...

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Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

Not much attention is paid to plankton because these creatures are usually hidden from sight. They are mostly microscopic in size and live in aquatic environments, but human lives are intricately ...