Iconic symbols of Halloween, bats have long suffered a spooky reputation.

Imagine you could draw a box anywhere in the ocean and instantly decide whether it might be a suitable site for aquaculture.

Hydrogen peroxide, a useful all-purpose disinfectant, is found in most medicine cabinets in the developed world.

Tropical Cyclone Kyarr is moving through the central Arabian Sea and NASA provided forecasters with an analysis of rainfall rates occurring in the powerful tropical cyclone.

As an object in the main asteroid belt, Hygiea satisfies right away three of the four requirements to be classified as a dwarf planet: it orbits around the Sun, it is not a moon and, unlike a planet, it has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

At this point, the greatest danger of climate engineering may be how little is known about where countries stand on these potentially planet-altering technologies.

Satellite images, drone photos and even Google Earth could help identify communities most at risk for getting one of the world’s worst tropical diseases.

Researchers have only been aware of the existence of fossil cold-water corals off the coast of Namibia since 2016. But it was not known when and why the cold-water corals in this region became extinct.

Tropical Depression 17 strengthened briefly into a tropical storm on the same day it formed, Oct. 25. NASA’s Terra satellite captured a look at the clouds associated with its remnants merging with a cold front over the southern U.S.

MIT chemists have devised a way to synthesize polymers that can break down more readily in the body and in the environment.