Two minor meteor showers — the Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids — peak overnight on July 29-30, making it a ...

Researchers have found evidence of a titanic tussle between a terror bird and a large caiman in Colombia's ancient La Venta ...

A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar ...

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young ...

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a rare 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb that somehow escaped looters over the centuries.

Peatlands cover just a fraction of Earth's surface, but store huge amounts of carbon. In the Peruvian Amazon, one of these ...

An experimental birth control pill for males works by blocking sperm production, and it just passed its first safety test in humans.

This 2023 astronaut photo shows three glaciers merging into a single massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountains. The stripy ...

Experts have debated the meaning of this tomb offering for decades but generally agree it depicts some sort of ceremony or ...

​​In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into ...

When two fluids don't mix well, they sometimes form strange patterns called "viscous fingering," or Saffman-Taylor ...