An unexpected rain of spiders led to a lovely Twitter geek-out between astronomers and arachnologists.

On the screen was a black dot. When the spider was looking toward the screen, the researchers pressed play, and the dot either expanded quickly (as if it coming toward the spider) or contracted ...

For the first week or so after eggs hatch, a spider mom leaves milk droplets around the nest for the crawling dots of her young to drink.

A smaller many-eyed mystery fascinates scientists today: members of the family Salticidae, or jumping spiders, with their front pair of large, round eyes and three smaller peepers on each side of ...

Jumping spiders have eyes on the sides of their head, so they can see movement in every direction, though their side-eye vision isn’t especially sharp.

A nail salon turns into a scene straight out of a horror movie—but it’s all just a brilliantly executed prank. When a hyper-realistic fake spider crawled in, clients and staff lost it. Screams ...

A Harvard research team has detailed a new form of depth-sensing camera inspired by the highly specialized eyes of the jumping spider.

Ravenous Evarcha culicivora jumping spiders -- vampire spiders -- have very specific tastes: they prefer to dine on blood-engorged female Anopheles mosquitoes. So how do they pick out female ...

We've Learned Jumping Spiders Can See the Moon, Thanks to Twitter Baby spiders crawling through an astronomer's office have led to a fascinating revelation.

The newly described jumping spider, Guriurius minuano, has a stripy pattern on its abdomen and large black eyes. (Pictured) Damián Hagopián Scientists have discovered a new species of spider ...

Jakob found that just about the only thing more interesting to a jumping spider than a potential cricket dinner is a black spot that is growing larger. Could it be an approaching predator?

E.culicivora is an East African jumping spider that feeds on mammal blood. Don’t worry: it’s not going to bite you. This indirect vampire only attacks mosquitoes that have recently bitten ...