The current contender for the oldest widely cited shipwreck is the approximately 4,200-year-old Dokos site in Greece, ...

A rare form of the organic alcohol methanol is present around at least one of the very young stars still embedded within it.

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For more than 150 years, scientists believed it was the earliest documented example of a solar storm interfering with human ...

On the small Scottish island of Lismore, history has a way of hiding in plain sight. Granted, the place clearly has a rich ...

New observations suggest that seasonal dry ice can send soil rushing downhill, carving channels that look deceptively ...

Alien planetary systems appear to fall into two distinct families, with some enjoying relatively calm orbits while others ...

In the figure of Enheduanna, we see a powerful figure of great creativity, whose passionate praise of the goddess of love ...

Comet fragments may have sparked Earth’s mysterious 1,400-year cold spell.

Meet Stigmatomma pallipes, a North American Dracula ant that emerges into adulthood ready to hunt, gather food, and care for ...

Corals that turn ghost-white from heat stress are usually written off. They’re starving, stripped of the algae that keep them ...

The trick is to watch the light. Most asteroids are lumpy and irregular, so the amount of sunlight they reflect changes as ...