Shuttle Atlantis and its crew moved toward the Hubble Space Telescope for a 350-mile-high grab Wednesday that will set the stage for five days of treacherous spacewalking repairs in an orbit littered with space junk.

Researchers in Texas are trying an unusual approach to combat fire ants -- deploying parasitic flies that turn the pesky and economically costly insects into zombies whose heads fall off.

A favorite activity of astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station is looking at the city lights below when the Station crosses the Earth's dark side. The lights outline the densest population centers and coastlines, and suggest cu

The oldest surviving human brain in Britain, dating back at least 2000 years to the Iron Age, has been unearthed at the University of York.

A 'four-eyed' deep sea fish is the first to be discovered which uses powerful mirrors for eyes instead of lenses, say scientists The spookfish, which lives at a depth of 3,280ft (1,000m), has been known to naturalists for 120 years

Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

Venus is a planet similar in size to the Earth. Nevertheless, it is quite different in other aspects.

Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic "stuff" called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes.

This is the first discovery of a large ancient ship in China in over two decades.

What causes tropical life to thrive: temperature, or sunlight? The answer is not necessarily "both." According to a study recently published online in PNAS Early Edition, the explosion of species at the tropics has much more to do with warmth