Thousands of satellites and debris fragments could act as a distributed sensor network, revealing how the thermosphere ...

Under the dense canopy of southwestern Amazonia, laser-equipped aerial surveys have revealed a vast engineered landscape of ...

New research suggests fine dust trapped heat from falling debris, producing a deadly pulse that could have ignited forests around the world.

Simply put, some artifacts don’t seem to fit. For instance, take this silver-gilt vessel made with metal traced to Iran. It’s ...

Long before Stonehenge rose above Salisbury Plain, one of its stones may have begun an extraordinary journey inside a glacier. The Altar Stone, a slab of sandstone lying near the monument’s center, ...

About 1.43 million years ago, eight upright figures waded across a muddy margin of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Their feet sank among the tracks of hippos, antelope and wading birds. Then gentle ...

This is the first somewhat informed picture of what a baby T. rex was like. It comes from the first fossils identified as ...

But it can make the world seem a bit blurry on the edges. The condition is called astigmatism, and it changes how the eye ...

In 218 BC, the great Carthaginian general Hannibal led his forces on a bold journey across the Alps to attack the Romans on their home turf. The Carthaginians were expecting the Romans to attack their ...

In one of the ocean’s strangest sleep routines, sperm whales can hang almost motionless in the water like giant living ...

For 25 years, one of the Milky Way’s strangest stellar explosions hid its culprit behind its own debris. Now the dust has ...

Researchers have identified six giant landslides inside three impact craters, where ice and debris fell more than 2 ...