Science

Two zebra sharks, which the Aquarium of the Pacific describes as the first born as a result of artificial insemination, will go on public display at the facility Tuesday.

The oldest known snake fossils, dating from 143 million to 167 million years ago, have been uncovered. Researchers, writing in the journal Nature Communications, say the fossils push back the first record of snakes by 70 million years.

In an “unusual if not unprecedented” night of activity meant to take advantage of near ideal weather conditions, scientists successfully launched four rockets into the upper atmosphere from the University of Alaska’s Poker Flat Research Range, northeast of Fairbanks, Sunday night.

An asteroid the size of a mountain has skimmed past Earth, allowing scientists to see the giant rock has a moon of its own.

The exoplanet J1407b is almost unimaginably large by the standards of our solar system. According to researchers it is likely somewhere between 10 and 40 times the mass of Jupiter. However, that is not the really spectacular thing about it.

Next Monday an asteroid called 2004 BL86 will pass by the Earth in what passes for a near miss in astronomical terms. The transit, on 26 January, will be a good opportunity for astronomers – professional and amateur – to observe the giant asteroid from unusually close quarters.

Whillans Ice Stream researchers have discovered fish, crustaceans and jellyfish, safe and sound deep beneath Antarctic ice shelf.

Oceans are warming at an accelerated pace — forcing scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to re-scale its heat chart to account for the warming that occurred in 2014.

A photographer swimming with sperm whales in Dominica captured the moment a spooked whale released a “poop-splosion” into the water.

100 Million Sun Photos! The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory uses four telescopes working parallel to gather eight images of the Sun – cycling through 10 different wavelengths – every 12 seconds.

Are we getting closer to Doomsday? Climate change and the danger of nuclear war pose an ever-growing threat to civilization and are bringing the world closer to doomsday, a group of prominent scientists and Nobel laureates said Thursday.