Comedian John Oliver passionately took up the cause of Russia's satellite designed to monitor gecko mating in space during his Sunday night program. The satellite was reportedly malfunctioning last ...

Over the last few days a peculiar drama has played out in the sky above our heads. It's been hard to miss—headlines like "Russia loses control of gecko sex experiment satellite" are compelling, to say ...

This is one experiment you don't want to go wrong: Copulating lizards are floating free somewhere in space. The researchers confirmed that the satellite was "not responding to commands" after they ...

To honor the geckos in the mating experiment aboard the Foton-M4 satellite, which the Russian space agency lost contact with for a few days last week, artist Fernando Reza has made this fanciful ...

On “Last Week Tonight,” John Oliver took issue with Russia and President Vladimir Putin, but not for the reasons you’d expect. Last week Russia’s Space Agency, Roscosmos, lost contact with a satellite ...

Earlier this month Russia launched a satellite carrying five geckos into space to observe their mating activities in the zero-gravity conditions of Earth’s orbit. Various other organisms, including ...

Scientists found new gecko species hidden in plain sight in pristine deserts of southern Africa, thanks to their loud, barking mating calls On a cool, starry night six years ago, a young scientist ...

Russia's Foton M4 satellite landed back on Earth on Sept. 1, 2014 after a 1.5-month trip into space to study the mating habits of geckos and other experiments. The geckos did not survive. Russia's ...