This rare example of an Aztec ritual mask was carved from wood over five centuries ago to represent Mictlantecuhtli, the god ...

Planet Earth Atacama Desert’s center dried out 20 million years earlier than previously thought — before the Andes formed Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gives the climate event a 63% chance to "rank among the largest El Niño ...

Earth's underground fungal network is so vast that, if it were in outer space, it would span roughly 10% of the Milky Way if ...

In response to the Disneyland outbreak, we ended up passing SB-277 in California and a number of other important vaccination ...

The Romans were the first to wear clog-style footwear to the baths to protect their feet from the hot floor and to better ...

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in ...

A new Chinese quantum computing system pairs two independent neutral-atom arrays in one processor, aiming to boost stability, ...

Northern lights are projected across the Northern U.S. and Europe tonight as Earth gets hit by a strong solar eruption.

Researchers say the Arctic Ocean crossed a biological tipping point in 2009, when nitrate levels in the water suddenly ...

A volcano that erupted after being asleep for more than 100,000 years is leading more volcanologists to say we must redefine ...

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost "protoplanet" that formed in the early solar ...