Day 2 at Lake Mead was spent entirely on a boat, covering miles of newly exposed shoreline. As the waterline dropped, sunken ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

The huge 1,600-mile (2,500-kilometer) wide expanse of the South Pole–Aitken Basin extends considerably onto the far side of ...

Skygazers who look up at the moon tonight may be able to spot Saturn below it. Here's when and how to spot the conjunction.

Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater.

Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka's Koppal, K Rajashekhar Hitnal, has come under heavy fire for dismissing a ...

A rhinoceros skeleton buried beneath Canada's High Arctic for 23 million years has emerged as the northernmost member of its family ever documented, fundamentally reshaping understanding of ancient ...

New species of plankton appeared fewer than 2,000 years after the world-altering event, according to research led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and published in Geology.

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago ...

The massive pileup Monday morning prompted the Michigan State Police to close both directions of Interstate 196 just ...