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 ...

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., ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

California's earthquakes are far more likely to be "overdue" compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world.

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