The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across ...

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate—and higher—population estimate for the ...

The European Space Agency said Thursday it would increase its budget for the next three years to almost 22.1 billion euros ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...

Instagram users may overestimate the extent to which they are addicted to the platform, according to research conducted on ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

New research has revealed that marine mammals who live far below the ocean's surface are not immune from the burden of toxic ...

Optical lattice clocks are devices that measure the passing of time via the frequency of light that is absorbed or emitted by ...

The material used to build the Temple of Venus in Naples has remarkably endured even as Earth's surface around it sank from ...