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Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the evolutionary marvels and environmental factors that allow the blue whale to maintain its status ...

Elephants are known to be very intelligent creatures, powerful enough to perform tasks that are seemingly impossible for any ...

Did you know that "The Office" star Rainn Wilson, a.k.a. Dwight Schrute, has a zonkey named Derek? Did you even know that zonkies exist?

Great whites, purple stinging jellyfish and several invisible threats – how dangerous are the animals in the Mediterranean Sea?

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial ...

The sentiment that we know more about space than we do about the depths of our oceans has been debated for many years. Though it’s not completely true, it cannot be disputed that both the depths of ...