Whale sharks are the largest species of shark. Their gentle manner and massive size make them the gentle giants of the ocean. However, one especially large whale shark has been spotted off the Pacific ...

There’s something about comparing the size of objects—say, moons or sci-fi starships—that is endlessly appealing. But while comparisons we’ve seen cover subsets of stuffs, none have looked at the big ...

Kurzgesagt’s latest In a Nutshell video takes us once more to the depths of space to look at the scary phenomena that are black holes. Rather than go into topics like dark matter and how black holes ...

The largest snake that ever lived is known as the Titanoboa; however, researchers in India may have unearthed fossils of a snake that rivaled its monstrous size: the recently discovered Vasuki indicus ...

We have detected only one transiting planet that has a mass below 10 Earth masses. This world, CoRoT-7b (named after the European Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits satellite) has a radius ...