Historian Sunil Amrith’s 2025 British Academy Book Prize winner traces how conquest and extraction drove 500 years of ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

The Pachycephalosaurus skull belonged to a dinosaur with a domed-shaped head that lived around 67 million years ago ...

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a ...

Curiosity has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2011, but what it found inside a rock last year has changed our ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has gone farther than any other spacecraft in history. Launched in 1977, it is a historic ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

South America is one of the easiest continents for American travelers craving adventure without bureaucracy. With vast ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together." ...

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...