A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

Many deserts face worsening droughts, but India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener in the past 20 years due to increased ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

A massive gang of over 60 orcas was seen brutalizing an endangered pygmy blue whale off the coast of Western Australia by a ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

Fall armyworms have spread throughout the world, destroying crops and evolving insecticide resistance. New research in ...

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. New research into its ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

Hantaviruses are spread by rodents and can cause deadly respiratory and kidney illnesses in humans. One of these illnesses ...