Science

Four planets will shine brightly for optimal skygazing opportunities, and the Full Buck supermoon comes early on July 3.

The July full moon is known by its Native American name -- the Buck Moon -- because deer antlers are in full growth during the summer.

Central State University's breeding program aims to create worker bees with smaller mandibles known as 'Ohio Mite Biters.'

One of the kids' camp counselors was sleeping in a hammock at the time of the attack, which ended when several adults reportedly killed the rabid animal.

The woman was bitten when she stepped in between her dog and the black bear, which had been chasing her pet – and punched the bear in the nose.

The dunes sagebrush lizard has quite the natural habitat. It's found only in parts of one of the world's most lucrative oil and natural gas basins.

Have aliens been confirmed yet? Well, no – but the expert work to identify hundreds of UFOs has accelerated in the last year more than ever. Here’s a look at where some investigations stand this World UFO Day.

Saturn’s atmosphere contains methane gas which absorbs sunlight, unlike its rings which are made up of billions of small chunks of ice and rock and appear brighter in the image.

The full “Buck Moon" as it’s called will appear bigger and brighter than average, according to the Farmer’s Almanac.

This invasive species of fish is able to live out of the water for days at a time.

As smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouds broad swaths of the U.S., here are seven facts you should know about measuring air quality.

The planet Mercury is in retrograde most often because it's the fastest planet traveling around the sun, NASA explained.

According to researchers, this is the first official record of Burmese peacock softshell turtle hatchlings in the wild.

Methyl cation was found in a young star system with the protoplanetary disk d203-506, located about 1,350 light-years away in the Orion Nebula.

A tourist flying over the Great Barrier Reef unknowingly captured the video of a lifetime.

A new study has found that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk with their kids.

Virgin Galactic flights to space for ticket holders will begin in August.

Officials say a bronze sword made more than 3,000 years ago that is so well-preserved it “almost still shines” has been unearthed in Germany.

Globular clusters such as the one captured by the Hubble Space Telescope can contain hundreds of thousands of stars.