Anjouan is an island between Africa and Madagascar littered with sedimentary rocks called quartzite that don't belong there. Are they a chunk of Gondwana?

Four years in the making, the Discovery Channel/BBC co-production is a groundbreaking look at the Earth's polar regions.

Tatooine, a desert planet in 'Star Wars,' may have a real-life analogue 1,000 light-years away.

The big-bodied bees join the ranks of ants and termites, which have long been known to rely on a separate caste of 'soldiers' to defend the colony.

Researchers stumble upon a method that could replace toxic cyanide with plain old cornstarch.

A research team working with an enzyme that eats plastic accidentally engineer it to make it better at breaking down PET.

If it isn't covered in toxic foam, Bellandur Lake in Bangalore is catching fire. The residents have complained

Even the Great Blue Hole in Belize, one of the world's largest sinkholes, isn't immune to human pollution.

NASA's space shuttle Discovery is set to land in Washington, D.C. this April, where the now retired fleet leader — the world's most flown spacecraft — will

The modified-Boeing 747, known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center here on April 10. The jumbo jetliner came in f

Space shuttle Discovery, NASA's fleet leader and the world's most flown spacecraft, lifted off for the last time on on April 17 to be delivered to the Smithsoni

Cries of "I see it!" rang out through the crowd as a speck on the horizon got bigger and bigger, resolving into the odd shape of two attached aircraft approachi

NASA astronaut Henry "Hank" Hartsfield, who in 1984 commanded the maiden mission of the space shuttle Discovery, died on July 17

Voters in the Gulf states favor candidates who will focus on restoration of the coastline -- especially those at the federal level.

It's been a little more than a year since the Gulf oil spill. Jeff Corwin visits the Breton Wildlife Center in Louisiana to see how some of the pelicans affecte

While 'America Revealed' with Yul Kwon explores how typical systems work, we also explain new oil cleanup technology and Titanic history.

Loopholes in the Montreal Protocol may need to be tightened, researchers say.

Just like 'Jurassic Park,' except with flowers instead of dinosaurs.

The crest-tailed mulgara was once a common sight in New South Wales deserts before other predators edged it out of the habitat.

Researchers discovered a Chelonoidis phantasticus giant tortoise on Fernandina Island. The last time this tortoise was seen was 1906.

A study funded by the Koch brothers debunks Climategate, but the cable news media doesn't cover it.

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the blue light-emitting diode.

The well was uncovered in the basement of an old London building that was also used as a 'Harry Potter' set.

Like any other aspect of running a business, the key to survival is preparation.

Feral cats cover a staggering 99.8 percent of Australian landmass, according to a new report in the journal Biological Conservation.

Gold Rush? More like cold rush! The cast and crew of the miniseries reveal how they battled extreme weather to bring this epic tale to the screen.

Scientists in Singapore have concocted a drug cocktail that can extend an animal's lifespan twofold.

The intricacies of soil biodiversity may offer scientists insights into how species — animals and plants — can survive global warming.

This middle-of-nowhere cave may have never been seen by humans.

Rescuers spent months nursing a paralyzed leopard until the day he stood on his own paws.

The elusive Bahama nuthatch was found in limited numbers on the island Grand Bahama amid concerns it had been wiped out in 2016.

The newly identified species may already be at risk of extinction due to habitat loss, researchers report.

The outlet-hogging reign of night lights may soon be over thanks to the ingenious SnapRays Guidelight from Snap Power.

A vivid new video follows skiers in LED-studded suits as they slice up Alaskan slopes after dark.

What started out as a free, legal music website (with optional tipping), has added free downloadable books to its offerings, including cookbooks.

Instead of running errands, Tom Wagg used his one-week internship to earn a place in history.

A new study introduces 18 previously unknown spider species that look remarkably like pelicans.

Dubbed the 'flying bulldog,' this extremely rare bee has been lost to science since 1981.

The discovery of two large lakes hidden beneath Greenland's ice suggests that climate change now cuts all the way to the bottom of the ice sheet.

Physicists at the world's largest atom smasher announced on July 4 that they are more than 99 percent sure they've found a new, and heavy, boson particle, that

A 4th garbage collection zone, this one in the South Pacific, emerges.

Here's a look at 10 newly identified, and exceptionally strange, animals, both living and extinct discovered in 2015.

Carey Gillam’s book "Whitewash" finds that glyphosate, the chemical in Monsanto’s Roundup, is everywhere – and evidence that it causes harm has been suppressed.

Finding sugars in meteorites adds a new twist to theories of how life arose on Earth.

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a monster black hole larger than thought possible.

The unusually close trifecta of black holes will likely merge into one giant entity over the next several hundred million years.

NASA's Planet Hunter, TESS, discovered its first potentially habitable Earth-sized planet called TOI 700 d, located 100 light-years away.

While he was a NASA intern, Wolf Cukier discovered a planet while combing through data from the TESS satellite.

The exoplanets discovered by astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto include one potentially habitable, Earth-sized world.

Tristram Stuart's book "Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal" argues that pigs can help alleviate world hunger by eating the scraps of wealthier countries,