A bee in your bonnet has nothing on a wasp in your belly. Mississippi scientists have discovered a new species of wasp that lays eggs in living flies so the babies burst out of their bellies, Nature ...

What sights could an exoplanet’s atmosphere create that would mimic Earth’s own visual wonders? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...

Some wasps are unsettling, and then there are species so extreme that even the scientists who study them reach for words like “horror,” “vampire,” and “nightmare.” These insects combine outsized ...

A fifteen-year-old student, Tom Wagg, has discovered an alien planet about 1,000 light-years from Earth. Wagg discovered the planet, known as WASP-142b, two years ago while he was doing ...

Scientists studying venomous insects made an unexpected discovery inside a simple lunchbox container — one that could help explain how alien life might evolve. The belief that creatures on the other ...