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A Space.com reader sent in an intriguing view of the Milky Way over Evans Bay in Wellington, New Zealand.

Astrophotographer Brian Drourr took this image on June 8, 2014 from Champlain Valley, Vermont. See how he captured the aurora view here.

Friday the 13th is shrouded with many superstitions, and is the perfect day to watch scary movies. What's more, this time the moon and the sun are upping the stakes, as there is a Friday the 13th full moon while solar fl...

The 20th World Cup kicked off Thursday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a new aerial image from NASA captured a stunning nighttime view of the host country.

A crackdown in the US is forcing technology firms to come clean about the source of the minerals used in their smartphones and electronics

Peru's Amazon rainforest is extensively contaminated from decades of oil and gas drilling, researchers reported.

Extending an electrical power line through parts of the Amazon would destroy one of the world's most precious nature reserves, say environmentalists

The honor of first kick of the 2014 FIFA World Cup went not to Brazilian soccer star Neymar, but to 29-year-old Juliano Pinto, who is paralyzed from the waste down.

Chewing, breathing, heartbeats and a gurgling stomach - your body's internal symphony plus a wireless microphone could yield round-the-clock medical data

A new analysis says that the asymmetry between the two faces of the moon is due to crust thickness differences that resulted from variable cooling rates after the molten formation of our companion.... --

To hear Al and Betty Perry tell it, they were lucky to survive the direct hit from a lightning bolt that struck their pickup. It's true that it provided for one heck of a dramatic video.  How much danger were they reall...

Boron, a critical building block for creating the first life on Earth, was found in 3.8-billion-year-old rocks from Greenland. The element stabilizes RNA, from which many researchers think life on Earth descended.

Help researchers make the scientific leaps necessary to understand the brain’s higher functions --

They're baaack -- in zoos around the world, animals are taking to the field -- or at least, the tank or the food bin -- to predict the results of World Cup games.

People with very low levels of vitamin D may have an increased risk of dying early, a new study suggests.

Patricia Wright of Stoney Brook University explains why owl monkeys are devoted fathers and nocturnal.


How much do you know about hurricanes and hurricane season?

Many robotic researchers mimic living animals in their creations, such as cats, dogs, birds, kangaroos, humans. Fine and good. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) would rather reverse engineer ...

Albert Einstein may be most famous for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2, but his work also laid down the foundation for modern quantum mechanics.

A new study has attempted to answer a long-standing question about dinosaurs, which first appeared on Earth nearly 231 million years ago.

It is the breakthrough that physicists and chemists around the world have long anticipated and it will play a pivotal role in information technology in coming years. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JG...

Don't forget the small Owl Monkey Dads on Father's Day. According to Stony Brook University Professor Patricia Wright, fathers within this and other small monkey species are very devoted to their offspring.