Science & Nature
Clouded Leopard
Inside the life of the clouded leopard, the secretive Asian cat with the longest canine teeth of any living feline, and a tail built for climbing.
Which Animals Have The Strongest Sense Of Smell?
Among the most interesting abilities developed by some animals is a superb sense of smell. These super sniffers can smell a meal from far away or sense danger.
What Is The Coldest Place In The Solar System?
What is the coldest place in the solar system? Not the farthest world from the Sun, but a permanently shadowed lunar crater. Explore why cold hides in shadow.
The World’s Largest Eagles
Determining which eagles are the biggest in the world requires an examination of mass, length, and wingspan.
Sea Krait
The highly venomous sea krait, found in tropical and subtropical coastal regions, is an evolutionary link to the past, living half in and half out of water.
What Animals Live In The Nile River?
The Nile crocodiles, known for their aggressive nature, are apex predators in the Nile River.
Which Planet Is The Most Tilted?
Uranus leans at 97.77 degrees, far more than any other planet. See why the seventh world spins on its side and what that does to its seasons.
Why Is Space Black?
Learn why space appears black despite countless stars and how cosmic age and expansion combine with a lack of atmosphere to create darkness.
Which Animals Cannot Walk Backwards?
Neither Emus nor Kangaroos, which are both from Australia, can walk backwards. The Australian coat of arms features both of these animals as symbolism for moving forward.
White Tiger
White tigers exist due to a very rare genetic mutation found among Bengal tigers in India, but now exist only in captivity.
Does Space Ever Truly End?
See why the observable universe has a horizon and how space may be infinite or finite without ever reaching a physical edge.
Birds That Start With C
Some of the birds whose names begin with C include the crow, the cockatoo, the carrier pigeon, the chicken, the cuckoo, the Canada goose, the chickadee, the cormorant, cockatiel and the canary.
What Animals Live In The Amazon River?
While the Amazon River supports the Amazon rainforest on land, it is also home to a great diversity of aquatic and semi-aquatic fauna.
Why JWST Keeps Finding Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist
The construction of the James Webb Space Telescope has led to continuous revelations about the universe, including findings of galaxies that shouldn't exist.
What Would Happen if the Sun Disappeared?
What would happen if the Sun vanished? Explore how Earth’s orbit, temperatures, oceans, and surviving life would change in total darkness forever.
What Is A Cloud Forest?
How cloud forests drink from the clouds, and why Kilimanjaro, Monteverde, Yakushima and the Appalachians all depend on the mist.
The Driest States In The United States
The driest states in the US aren't all deserts. Some are famous for snow. Ranked by NOAA precipitation data, with the geography that keeps each one dry.
Which Planet Has The Biggest Storm?
Discover why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system and what scientists have learned about this centuries-old atmospheric giant.
The Cities With the Lowest Annual Rainfall in the US
The Cities With the Lowest Annual Rainfall in the US are led by Yuma, Arizona, where barely three inches fall in a year, followed by Las Vegas and Phoenix.
Milk Snake
Milk snakes are relatively docile and not a threat to humans, but are often mistaken for copperheads, or even rattlesnakes.
Could Humans Live On Titan?
Though Titan has an atmosphere and surface relatively similar to Earth, its temperatures and rotation would make life on Titan difficult for humans.
What's Outside the Universe?
Most people are aware of the Big Bang, but rarely dive into the specifics of what's outside the universe. Is it even possible to know?
What Would Jupiter Look Like as a Star?
See how Jupiter might glow, change color, and alter the solar system if the giant planet gained enough mass to become a star.
Ocelot
Discover the ocelot, a spotted wild cat that hunts by night across the Americas. Learn its range, diet, behavior, and the threats it faces today.
What Happens Inside A Neutron State
A teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about a billion tons, revealing why these collapsed stellar remnants are among the densest objects in the universe.
What's the Fastest Thing in the Universe?
Light sets the universe’s speed limit, but cosmic rays, pulsars, black hole jets, and Parker Solar Probe come astonishingly close.
Tiger Shark
A guide to the tiger shark: its size, worldwide range, wildly varied diet, teeth, reproduction, danger to humans, and conservation status.
What's the Biggest Thing in the Universe?
The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall is the biggest known structure in the universe, defying our notions of what's possible.
Which Planet Is the Hottest?
With a daytime surface temperature of up to 867 degrees Fahrenheit, this planet gets so hot that it literally melts lead.
Malayan Tiger
The Malayan tiger is one of the world's rarest big cats, with fewer than 150 left in the rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia. Learn what threatens it.
Which Planet Has the Strongest Gravity?
Despite its invisibility, gravity affects every aspect of our lives. But which planet in our solar system has the strongest gravity?
What Animals Live in the Pacific Ocean?
What animals live in the Pacific Ocean? Explore its whales, sharks, coral reefs, and deep-sea oddities, from the sunlit surface to the crushing abyss.
Which Planet Is Shrinking?
Mercury is shrinking as its metal core cools, cracking the crust into mile-high cliffs and fault scarps that show the small planet is still active.
The First Ever Animals To Walk On Land
The first animals that walked on land were called tetrapods. It is believed that the first tetrapods walked the parts of our planet where Scotland is situated today.
How Long Could You Survive in Space?
Learn how long you could survive in space without protection and how spacesuits extend survival during astronaut emergencies.
Could Life Exist Beneath Europa's Ice?
Jupiter's moon Europa hides an ocean with twice Earth's water beneath miles of ice. Could anything live in it? NASA's Europa Clipper aims to find out.