The researchers hypothesize that pigeons encounter discarded hairs and artificial threads, perhaps when collecting nesting ...

E xcavations at a 2,000-year-old settlement in Spain have yielded the first ever trilobite fossil from Roman times. Found in ...

Vitamin B12 supplements might be recommended to people who are at particular risk of being deficient in it. This includes ...

I n Yellowstone National Park, a hydrothermal explosion has formed a new hole, filled with chalk blue water that’s hotter ...

I n 2016, a lightning storm rolled across the Hardangervidda plateau in Norway. When the skies cleared, wildlife officials ...

“The flight was extremely normal for the first 36 seconds, and after that it got very interesting," Conrad recalled in the ...

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W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater.

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf planet, named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, was found over 12.9 ...

A cross July 14-15, 1965 (depending on your time zone), the Mariner 4 mission was doing something incredible. This early NASA ...

Nearly 60 percent of the world population will be in a good place to see the entire eclipse from beginning to end.

In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the Solar System's formation.