A newly identified greenhouse gas shatters all other records for the chemical’s potential to contribute to climate change.

If these plumes vent from Europa's subsurface water ocean, future scientists won't need to drill into Europa's icy crust to investigate the potential for life in that alien sea.

The Saturn hexagon is a unique six-sided jet stream, a current of air, around Saturn's north pole.

The discovery of a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-sun distance has astronomers puzzled over how such a strange system came to be.

Increased carbon dioxide uptake by the oceans might be making fish anxious, a new study suggests.

Astronomers have spotted what appear to be two supermassive black holes 3.8 billion light-years from Earth, circling each other like dance partners.

Male brains facilitate connectivity between perception and coordinated action. Female brains facilitate communication between the analytical and the intuitive.

When a mouse is trained to become afraid of a certain odor, his or her pups will be more sensitive to that odor as well. Researchers say that knowing how mouse parents can influence their descendants is a step toward understanding how human parents may pass some psychiatric disorders to their children.

A new algorithm could profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr.

It may be two inches long, lemon yellow, and the slowest-moving fish in the sea, but it’s also one of the deadliest predators the ocean has ever seen.