Yet some regions are far enough from tectonic plate boundaries to contain rocks that have remained unchanged for billions of ...

The founders of the Microbiota Vault, a project that aims to preserve microbial diversity, have announced that they are ready ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Whole-body MRI scans have risen to prominence for their alleged ability to catch many health conditions early. But are they ...

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Footage captures a pair of orcas nibbling each other's tongues in the Kvænangen fjords in northern Norway. Scientists think this rarely seen behavior could play a role in social bonding.

NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting the light in those images to ...

Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent ...

Giant ceramic pots made centuries to millennia ago were found to hold human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and ...

A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

Excavations in Egypt's Nile Delta have revealed ancient Egyptian multistory "tower" houses, a ceremonial building dedicated ...

Last year, astronomers detected a powerful burst of radio waves from within our galaxy. Researchers now say it came from NASA ...