After centuries of mystery, archaeologists have made startling new discoveries about how the pyramids were built at the Egyptian city of Giza.
A Cape Cod Diver Was Just Swallowed — And Spit Out — By A Humpback Whale For 30-40 seconds, Michael Packard struggled to escape the whale's mouth and wondered if he would be swallowed whole.
Do aliens exist? Extraterrestrial life has never been discovered, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. At NASA, astrobiologists like Lindsay Hays are trying to answer one of the most profound questions ever: Is there life beyond Earth?
Lucy is named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia nearly a half-century ago.
The star’s rotation period beats the previous champion by five seconds
SIRs and CIRs are large-scale, often long-lived structures that, like the solar wind itself, can trigger geomagnetic storms on the Earth and affect its ionosphere and thermosphere.
The first lunar rocks returned to Earth in more than 40 years raise questions about the moon’s evolution
Over the centuries, hundreds of cases of spontaneous human combustion have been reported around the world. But is it actually possible?
Despite the potential challenges, scientists have used radiometric dating to answer all sorts of questions.
LLNL scientists have developed a new approach using machine learning to study with unprecedented resolution the phase behaviors of superionic water found in ice giants Uranus and Neptune
Europe's BepiColombo mission has returned its first pictures of Mercury, the Solar System's innermost planet.
