Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...

A number of well-known factors, including exposure to UV radiation, genetics and aging, can lead to cataracts, a condition ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

While it went for well below the auction house's estimate, "Composition With Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

New research shows that the weapons found in Germany are much younger than previously thought, suggesting they were made by ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Will the artwork honor a hometown hero, reflect the area’s commitment to education or the environment, depict a beloved park ...

The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life ...

Largely due to groundwater pumping and shifting of land after the last ice age, major urban areas are subsiding, which could ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...