The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

If you've handled cat litter or eaten raw meat or unwashed produce, there’s a chance you might have a permanent toxoplasmosis ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...

New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

A new panorama from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter shows Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanoes on Mars, rising above a thick ...

A metal detectorist in Germany has unearthed an Early Middle Ages hoard that contains 200 artifacts, including a pendant that ...

As a result, purple and magenta are known as "nonspectral" colors, because they don't really exist as actual electromagnetic ...

To answer these questions, it is easiest to start with the amount of gold that humans have mined to date. The U.S. Geological ...

Space weather experts warn that a "moderate" geomagnetic storm could rock Earth over the weekend, potentially lighting the ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving ...