Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.

Tucked inside a sunken basin of the Nafud Desert, the town of Jubbah thrives where water once ruled. Surrounded by towering ...

New research into ancient and modern dog skulls shows that our ancestors have been selectively breeding them for thousands of ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...

Tucked within the larger South Cumberland State Park system, Savage Gulf represents the crown jewel in Tennessee’s natural ...

“The presence of liquid water [on Mars] is a broad topic that includes rains, rivers, lakes, as well as oceans,” says Ezat ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

This week, the full “Snow Moon” won’t rise alone, as it will make a regal appearance alongside Regulus, the legendary “royal ...

At the moon's north and south poles, permanently shadowed craters remain so cold that water ice and other frozen compounds can persist for billions of years. Scientists think these ancient deposits ...