Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear ice-encrusted fur. Fluffy, an adorably resilient cat recently survived a brush with the polar vortex after her owners found her covered in chunks of ice and snow.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

During the Jurassic period, some feathered dinosaurs — including the 160-million-year-old, crow-size Anchiornis huxleyi — were downright fluffy, unlike many of their sleek, modern bird relatives, a ...

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

Clouds in the sky may seem like a gentle cotton in the air but they are actually made of millions of tiny water droplets or ice crystals. Despite their delicate appearance, clouds can weigh hundreds ...

Members of the Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope (SEEDS) Project have used Subaru’s High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Adaptive Optics (HiCIAO) ...

A recent addition to the 200-member list of worlds beyond our solar system stands above the crowd. The planet orbits a star 450 light-years from Earth and is the largest planet found to date, ...

THE TYRANNOSAURUS Rex was not fluffy or fuzzy because feathers would have made it too hot, according to new research. Many flesh eating dinosaurs related to the iconic beast have turned out to be ...

Cute little ducklings are hardly known for their intelligence. But a new study has shown that far from being bird-brained, ducklings may be capable of abstract concepts previously thought only be ...

Our solar system is passing through a cloud of interstellar material that shouldn't be there, astronomers say. And now the decades-old Voyager spacecraft has helped solved the mystery. The cloud is ...

A supermassive blackhole feasted on the fluffy disk of swirling gas, these disks are the remains of the shredded and trapped stars. These supermassive black holes have mass millions and billions of ...