Confirmation of alien life would answer one enormous question and immediately create dozens more. Humanity’s reaction would ...

As a teenager, Gabriela Farfan became fascinated by the shapes and colors of minerals. Now, as curator of gems and minerals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, she studies what they ...

Five years after launching toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has already uncovered unusual asteroid structures, including a previously unseen orbital configuration. According ...

The University of Arizona now runs the facility as a living research and education center, and guided tours let visitors ...

This documentary explores the extraordinary story of Leviathan melvillei, one of the most powerful predators ever to inhabit Earth's oceans. Living between roughly 10 and 5 million years ago during ...

Scientists uncover a previously unknown yak-like Ice Age mammal in Siberia's Denisova Cave using ancient DNA, revealing a ...

The route through Michigan holds more possibilities than a quick highway trip might suggest. Take the scenic-minded approach instead.

There’s a moment in Beauty and the Beast when Belle walks into that enormous library and her jaw drops, and if you’ve ever ...

The new film “Brother Joseph Again” argues a daguerreotype is a forensic match to Joseph Smith. I’m not fully convinced.

A rare extinct tiger head has been found under a bed weeks after the ‘only one in existence’ sold for a staggering £60,000.

Most snakes slither away when threatened. But some have a much stranger escape strategy: they turn themselves into spinning wheels.

AI news.OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, which uses AI agents to support the complex progress management of drug discovery ...