Located south of Santa Barbara in posh Montecito, Butterfly Beach is a picturesque enclave that’s well-suited to sunbathing, surfing, kayaking, paddleboarding and swimming.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaked on May 5-6, and the astrophotography community were there to watch it unfold.

With its impressive 8-centimeter wingspan and striking orange-and-yellow wings bordered by white-spotted black edges, the ...

A new butterfly species, Satyrium curiosolus, has been discovered in Alberta. Isolated for millennia, it shows unique traits and faces conservation risks due to low genetic diversity. In Canada’s ...

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries.

It’s literally because they were curious about how it survived in isolation.) They announced the discovery in an April 2025 study published in ZooKeys. The curiously isolated hairstreak butterfly has ...