NASA launched its first moon shot in a decade Thursday, sending up two lunar spacecrafts atop an Atlas V rocket. The LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) and a crater observation spacecraft are unmanned scouts designed to lay the first groundwork for the space agency’s proposed 2020 return of astronauts to the moon.

A expedition to an isolated mountain region of southeastern Ecuador claims that it has discovered several new species, including a bug-eyed salamander that bears a resemblance to movie character E.T.

In a 196-page report filed by the Obama Administration on Tuesday, it was detailed that global warming is bigger and badder than ever before.

If you can’t bring the scientist to the tornado, bring the tornado to the scientist.

Do you still remember all the different types of clouds? Well, there’s another category of clouds on the horizon, and these turbulent seas in the sky could be examples of the first official new cloud type since 1951.

After decades of searching, scientists have finally discovered where basking sharks—the world’s second largest fish— go in the wintertime.