Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone ...

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid ...

A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the ...

Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals.

A likely source of contamination has been identified in an ongoing Listeria outbreak affecting California and Nevada.

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million ...

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did — and learn to ...

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

Winners and runners-up of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's 2025 Environmental Photography Award revealed.

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...