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

It seems almost unbelievable. A 1,000-year-old Mayan manuscript might still predict solar eclipses accurately. The Dresden ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...