March 5 (UPI) -- For the first time, scientists have managed to capture a full-depth portrait of glacial melting during winter -- with the help of a team of deep-diving seals with instruments strapped on their heads.

ORLANDO, Fla., March 5 (UPI) -- Astronauts Kate Rubins and Soichi Noguchi stepped into space Friday to perform maintenance on the exterior of the International Space Station.

About seven years ago, a hurricane churned high above the North Pole. It was during the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, but this storm's eye did not touch the water, and it did not make landfall.

ORLANDO, Fla., March 4 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden called NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Thursday to congratulate staff on the Mars rover Perseverance landing, which he said inspired the world during a difficult time.

March 4 (UPI) -- Butterfly numbers are down across the American West, even in places relatively undisturbed by human activity.

March 4 (UPI) -- Frog lungs work kind of like noise cancelling headphones, according to a new study, helping females drown out the overwhelming cacophony of competing mating calls.

March 4 (UPI) -- Britain's coastal waters have lost a lot more seagrass than has been previously estimated.

March 4 (UPI) -- SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket loaded with dozens of additional Starlink communications satellites into space early Thursday after previous launch attempts were delayed.

ORLANDO, Fla., March 4 (UPI) -- Astronauts Kate Rubins and Soichi Noguchi are scheduled to conduct the 236th spacewalk in International Space Station history Friday morning.

March 3 (UPI) -- Elon Musk's SpaceX notched the first successful landing of the company's deep-space Starship rocket in a test flight early Wednesday evening in Boca Chica, Texas -- but the rocket exploded minutes later.

March 3 (UPI) -- The precise origins of a unique type of hazardous solar particles has been identified for the first time by a team of scientists in Britain and United States.

March 3 (UPI) -- For the first time, scientists have quantified the influence of humans on surface water storage, a key component of the global water cycle.

March 3 (UPI) -- Current rates of greenhouse gas emission reductions won't be enough to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.

March 3 (UPI) -- All over the world, wild hogs are considered a nuisance and a pest, but according to a new study, the hogs and their messy, destructive nest-building practices nurture biodiversity in Malaysian rainforests.

The first week of March will conclude with a celestial meetup of the smallest and largest planets in the solar system, Mercury and Jupiter.

ORLANDO, Fla., March 3 (UPI) -- NASA is preparing for the first time to reuse a SpaceX Dragon capsule, the Endeavor, on a crewed mission in April.

March 2 (UPI) -- According to a new study, cuttlefish can pass the Stanford marshmallow test, delaying the gratification of an immediate reward for a better reward later.

March 2 (UPI) -- SpaceX will fly its deep-space rocket Starship in orbit "many, many times before 2023" and will take 12 people around the moon that year, the company's founder and CEO Elon Musk announced on Tuesday.

March 2 (UPI) -- According to a new study, published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Biology, the trap-jaw evolved independently among different ant lineages between seven and ten times.

March 2 (UPI) -- Scientists in Germany and the United States have developed a new model to predict the pathways of coastal plastic pollution.