The 22nd day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar shows a cluster of blue stars blasting a cavity out of a larger ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ...

The famous tarantula scene from 'Home Alone' will soon be immortalised in bronze, thanks to the film's star, actor Daniel Stern. The 68-year-old actor, who portrayed Marv Murchins, one half of the ...

A rare tarantula species is being driven toward extinction by the illegal exotic pet trade, the Center for Biological ...

Four newly discovered tarantula species were just dubbed the "Genital King," and for tarantulas, size really does matter. The species are all under the genus Satyrex, which loosely translates to the ...

The Malaysian purple-femur tarantula inhabits easily recognizable silk-sealed burrows in a hilly area of Malaysia that covers ...

The Malaysian purple-femur tarantula ( Coremiocnemis hoggi) constructs burrows sealed with silk webbing in steep, shaded areas of montane tropical rainforest. Poachers dig the spiders out of these ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of a "cosmic tarantula": the Tarantula Nebula. The nebula, officially called 30 Doradus, earned its spider nickname because "the region ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Tarantula mating season runs from about July to November, skewing toward October in California. Female tarantulas ...