Scientists poring over data from NASA's newest planet-hunting telescope have announced that they've spotted a second possible planet, just three days after many of the same team members announced their first find. The two potential planets are the ...

If you give an octopus MDMA, it will get touchy and want to mingle. What sounds like the premise of a children's book set at Burning Man is, in fact, the conclusion of a study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology. Neuroscientist Gül Dölen ...

Canada and the United States usually get along pretty well, and that's probably because Canadians are just so darn nice. They apologize for everything, they don't mind bizarre weather, and they're always looking out for each other. Unfortunately the ...

Scientists have identified the earliest known animal in the geological record. It's a 558-million-year-old oval-shaped creature that may have borne a superficial resemblance to a segmented jellyfish. Researchers found specimens of the creature, known ...

Temperatures not much warmer than the planet is experiencing now were sufficient to melt a major part of the East Antarctic ice sheet in Earth's past, scientists reported Wednesday, including during one era about 125,000 years ago when sea levels were ...

A soft, white blanket of webbing formed near a lagoon in western Greece, reportedly allowing a massive mating "party" to ensue between spiders in the town of Aitoliko. Photographs published online show the nearly 1,000-foot web stretching across a ...

A Japanese space probe Friday released a pair of exploring rovers towards an egg-shaped asteroid to collect mineral samples that may shed light on the origin of the solar system. The "Hayabusa2" probe jettisoned the round, cookie tin-shaped robots ...

Normally antisocial sea creature becomes friendly and tactile after being given the drug, scientists say. Hannah Devlin Science correspondent. @hannahdev. Thu 20 Sep 2018 11.56 EDT Last modified on Thu 20 Sep 2018 13.10 EDT. Share on Facebook ...

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