A new study identifies eight Martian caves that scientists say should be prioritized in future life-search missions.

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

New research sheds light on a cross-shaped pit found at Aguada Fénix, a monumental complex discovered several years ago ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ...

Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope ...

A 2024 analysis by Climate Resilience for All found that heat now lasts up to five months a year in some southern European ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice on Earth—an incredible six million years old—deep in the frozen expanse of East Antarctica. The ice, along with ancient air bubbles trapped ...

California has a secret, and it’s hiding in plain sight along the central coast where the Santa Lucia Mountains dramatically plunge into the Pacific Ocean. Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park in Monterey ...

Scientists found six-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, unlocking the planet’s oldest samples and evidence of dramatic long-term cooling.

A fisherman digging for worms at his summer home in Sweden instead discovered over 13 pounds of buried silver treasure. The hoard comes from the early Middle Ages, and includes mostly coins (and some ...