The world's largest lizards, descendants of prehistoric reptiles, exhibit remarkable adaptations. From the Komodo dragon, a ...

A massive, hidden aquifer stretching from New Jersey as far north as Maine is being studied through thousands of samples ...

New research shows that Mars’ mantle holds evidence of its turbulent early history. New research published in Science shows that Mars’ mantle retains evidence of its violent origins. The planet’s ...

Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but sometimes you find something much older.

Scientists now hope that future ALMA observations will provide even more evidence—and perhaps direct hints—of the mysterious ...

Cloudland Canyon State Park in Rising Fawn, Georgia, is that friend who’s incredibly talented but never brags about it – quietly spectacular while everyone else is making noise about less impressive ...

Christians hold that the eight survivors of The Great Flood (Noah and his wife, their three sons, and their wives) disembarked the Ark on Mount Ararat and then migrated to ...

The lives and craft of ancient Egyptian artisans are the subject of a new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Scientists found million-year-old microbial DNA in mammoths, revealing ancient infections and host-microbe relationships.