Next to CO2, methane is the greenhouse gas that contributes most to the man-made greenhouse effect. 

Looking like a cross between a frog and a lizard, the gray cheek salamander has thin, smooth skin and no lungs. 

The Atlantic Ocean’s Gabrielle has made a second transition and the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite provided information about the rate in which rain was falling within the now extra-tropical storm.

NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean from its orbit in space and took an image that showed vertical wind shear was weakening Faxai and the storm had become extra-tropical.

In combination with the current prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, the new test could help men avoid unnecessary and invasive biopsies, over-diagnosis and over-treatment.

An international team of scientists has discovered two new species of electric eel, one of which delivers 860 volts; the highest level of electricity generated by any living creature.

The topography of Titan, the largest of moon of Saturn, seems serene in Cassini mission images, but lakes of liquid methane that pock the landscape were likely formed by explosive, pressurized nitrogen just under the moon’s crusty surface, according to research published Sept. 9 in Nature Geoscience.

No more than 540 million years ago there was a huge boom in the diversity of animals on Earth. 

Two University of Hawaii at Mānoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein’s equations to model the growth of the universe.

Cold temperatures are not nearly as deadly as heat, with around 2% of all deaths nationwide related to heat, according to new research from the University of Technology Sydney.