This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found strange green spots in Martian rock, potentially indicating a past interaction with liquid ...

Generally, there are 52 weeks and one additional day in a regular year. In a leap year, which occurs almost every four years, ...

An excavation at a Roman fortress in the country of Georgia has revealed a gold offering to a god of war, a colorful mosaic and other artifacts.

At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

The Vikings' reputation for bloodlust compared to other medieval fighters may have been exaggerated over the years.

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...