NASA scientists have discovered a mysterious ribbon around our solar system —- a stripe made of hydrogen —- that defies all current expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like.
Richard Fisher, the director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, tells NPR’s Guy Raz that this discovery is a big moment for the scientific [...]

Scientists have found more than 200 new species of frogs in Madagascar but a political crisis is hurting conservation of the Indian Ocean island’s unique wildlife, a study shows.
The discovery, which almost doubles the number of known amphibians in Madagascar, illustrates an underestimation of the natural riches that have helped spawn a $390-million-a-year tourism industry.
However, [...]

Researchers believe they have solved the puzzle of three seemingly different fish, one all males, one all females and one all juveniles.
They’re the same fish, and undergo remarkable changes as they mature.
“You can imagine it was a pretty exciting discovery,” said G. David Johnson, an ichthyologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. “The [...]

Scientists said Sunday they had uncovered new marine animals in their search of previously unexplored Australian waters, along with a bizarre carnivorous sea squirt and ocean-dwelling spiders.
A joint US-Australian team spent a month in deep waters off the coast of the southern island of Tasmania to “search for life deeper than any previous voyage in [...]