Claims that spruce trees synchronize their responses to a solar eclipse were widely reported recently — but many researchers ...

A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock ...

A security camera near Thazi, Myanmar, captured the earth cracking during a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in March.

Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone ...

A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the ...

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid ...

A likely source of contamination has been identified in an ongoing Listeria outbreak affecting California and Nevada.

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals.

A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million ...

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...