Turtles spend most of their lives in the water, but most tortoises cannot swim.

Bill Nye and the Planetary Society are preparing to push NASA and the US Government toward a manned mission to Mars.

Ants are a vital part of every ecosystem, including dense urban ones but their role isn’t always obvious.

Images of a newly forming star taken 18 years apart are providing new insights into cosmic processes.

A new dating method shows the Lucy’s ancestors roamed Africa for at least 400,000 years before she was born.

Researchers at Princeton University were shocked to find that neutral particles were influenced by the Hall Effect.

The finding in Garden City indicates that water flowed through the rocks on the Red Planet’s surface long after the lake in Gale Crater tried up.

Scientists hooked up geomagnetic sensors to rats, allowing them to navigate a maze in the same amount of time as rats with good vision.

Viewers across the Pacific Coast of the United States and Australia were treated to an amazing glimpse of a blood-red moon in the third in a series of four eclipses.

Methane and ethane lakes on the surface of Titan, one of Saturn’s 61 moons, will soon be visited by a NASA submarine.