N.C. Coastal Land Trust's annual Flytrap Frolic, scheduled for June 7 in Wilmington, brings participants face-to-trap with.

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This one-of-a-kind predatory strategy has never been seen in other insects. Scientists think it was used to trap flies into ...

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"Because it has a heat shield and it was designed to survive the rigors of Venus' atmosphere, what I expect is instead of burning up and melting, it will reenter essentially undamaged," he said.

There's also the possibility that the thousand-pound, meter-wide spherical lander burns up as it reenters Earth's atmosphere, but McDowell thinks that's unlikely. "Because it has a heat shield and it ...

More than five decades after a failed mission to Venus, a Soviet-era spacecraft is now on a return path to Earth. According to NASA, the Cosmos 482 probe—launched in 1972 and stuck in low Earth orbit ...

President Donald Trump’s first 100 days included a wide range of attacks on environmental and climate initiatives. His proposed budget does the same.Related video above: Scientists warn Earth ...

A group of researchers studying a nature reserve in the Tibetan Himalayas set up a trail camera in hopes of spotting elusive species. What they found was as exciting as anything they could have ...

“The 495 kg lander was made to withstand the extremely harsh conditions of Venus’ hostile atmosphere and designed to 300 Gs of acceleration and 100 atmospheres of pressure,” it said in a ...