Today we know them as geoglyphs, and while they’re found in various sites across the globe, Atacama is home to the largest ...

The impact did not just trigger this enormous tsunami: It heated the atmosphere, boiled off the top layer of the ocean, and ...

This new discovery is the first animal we know of whose left and right sides were not identical, but the shape raises many ...

These weather oscillations persisted even at a time when the continents were distributed differently, the modelling shows.

F ollowing the removal of dams along the Klamath River earlier this year, fall-run Chinook salmon have made a long-awaited return to the Oregon portion of the Klamath Basin, having recently been ...

“By using the Moon, and not a coronagraph, we have a vast distance between our telescope and the object that is blocking the ...

Some of these ancient cultural and economic hubs are still standing today, and have been inhabited ever since their ...

When we die, our bodies release something called putrescine, which is responsible for the horrendous smell that comes from ...

More than any other, this isotope alerts us to exploding stars’ influence on the Solar System, but the signs are not always ...

E xtinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

Q uasars occur when supermassive black holes gobble up an incredible amount of gas. Observations and general wisdom suggested ...

“It is the position of the AASM that the United States should eliminate seasonal time changes in favor of permanent standard ...