Excavations along the Rappahannock River in Virginia have revealed the likely spot of Indigenous villages once described by ...

The "sacrificial complex" contained hundreds of bits of horse bridles and bronze beads, revealing a new aspect of ancient ...

Bleached clay rocks found on the Martian surface suggest that the Red Planet was once home to heavy rainfall and tropical ...

Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.

A massive new sunspot complex, dubbed AR 4294-4296, has emerged on the sun and is facing directly at Earth. The dark patch is ...

In December 1954, Gertrude Elion and colleagues described a new compound they had developed that sent children with leukemia ...

The CDC's vaccine committee has voted to roll back a universal recommendation that newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B ...

The Geminid meteor shower has begun. The Geminids peak overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, when up to 150 "shooting stars" per hour ...

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

Scientists modeled Europe's future if a key Atlantic current were to collapse and found that the continent faces a much drier ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...