Officials are asking the public to help identify and count butterflies. They call it the "Butterfly Atlas," and it's a ...

Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) picked up on a new moving dot in the sky, an ...

Among the largest flying insects in the world, the Atlas moth is a true natural marvel. With an astonishing wingspan of up to 24 centimeters (nearly 10 inches), this moth often gets mistaken for a ...

A recently discovered comet, named C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, makes its closest approach of Earth on Saturday. The comet’s next appearance may be in 80,000 years.

Since 2000, the number of butterflies in the United States has fallen by 22%, on average, researchers report Thursday in the journal Science.Butterfly abundance dropped in every part of the ...

One of the most striking examples is the monarch butterfly.In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the monarch under the Endangered Species Act, saying the species ...