A decade after the release of The Martian and a decade out from the world it envisions, a planetary scientist checks in ...

In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

A rare Gutenberg Bible was sold off page by page—eventually touching lives and fortunes all over the world.

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...

The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers has uncovered the earliest known evidence ...

The last week in May is commemorated internationally each year as the Week of the Disappeared. This is episode 38 of Stories of Resistance.

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow ...

Although the biggest, the 1916 bolide was far from the only meteor to threaten the Cincinnati region. The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune [Jun 7, 1904] reported a meteor plunging into the sidewalk at ...