The tumulus (or burial mound) now stands about 26 feet (8 meters) above a natural hillock and more than 100 ft (30 m) above ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

Archaeologists in southern Sicily have uncovered an ancient bone tool depicting the god Dionysus and his erect phallus. The ...

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Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

NASA is considering the early return of Crew-11 from the International Space Station after an unidentified astronaut ...

The federal government has released new dietary guidelines, introducing an emphasis on consuming meat and dairy and avoiding ...

The Avenue of the Baobabs preserves the remnant trees of an ancient tropical forest on Madagascar.

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the ...

Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined ...