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.

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

How a professional ship-sinker is about to turn a famous ocean liner into the world’s largest artificial reef The SS United ...

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

Lake Titicaca is the largest freshwater lake in South America. Thought to be around three million years old, the lake ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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