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

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

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

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

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

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

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the ...

The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939" is a sprawling collection of more than 300 works at Chicago's Wrightwood 659 gallery ...

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Snake wranglers safely relocated the healthy, female western diamondback from a backyard in Scottsdale, but they say the find is a first in their experience ...

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

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