These are the rarest animals on Earth creatures so elusive, so endangered, that most people don’t even know they exist. From ...

Our planet is a vibrant tapestry of life endowed with a stunning variety of creatures that often remain elusive and rare. While many people might be familiar with the charismatic giant panda or the ...

Individual leopard seals specialize in specific prey types despite being generalist species, reshaping ecosystem dynamics.

Jilin the Amur Leopard leaps through tall grass in his enclosure at the Niabi Zoo Monday, August 5, 2019. According to zoo officials, Jilin was brought for breeding proposes with plans to ...

Regardless of Musk's ambitions, leaving Planet Simple demands more than a rocket: We need a paradigm shift in how we understand our relationship with complex systems.

Kepler-725c's mass is quite significant — 10 times greater than the mass of Earth. This places it in the upper echelons of a type of planet called super-Earths — giant, probably rocky worlds.

Fancy a day as an amur leopard? This paper mask is the purr-fect way to become one of these amazing big cats. All you need to do is ask a grown-up to print out the template, then just follow the ...

Astronomers had detected just a hint, a glimmer of two molecules swirling in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b — molecules that on Earth are produced only by living things.

China plans to overtake the United States by building the world’s largest national park system, a network of wilderness bigger than Texas. Although China only created its first national park ...

Another one bites the moon dust Inconveniently for impact analysts, Earth has active plate tectonics, weathering, and erosion, and these processes smooth over our planet’s record of ancient craters.

The new series brings Xenomorphs to Earth in the year 2120, where the planet is governed by five corporations – some of which fans of the franchise will know quite well: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani ...

The dwarf planet candidate’s closest point to the sun is about 7 billion kilometers, roughly 45 times that of Earth’s distance. One trip around the sun takes more than 24,000 years.