The portrait of the renowned Scottish poet vanished without a trace in 1840. Since then, scholars and sleuths alike have been ...

Synthetic pheromones may be a promising tool in attracting and culling troublesome crown-of-thorns starfish, which rapidly ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

While the Zoo was closed, staff members captured some rare scenes of the animals experiencing the falling snow.

The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...

Researchers thought that just one subspecies of cheetah lived in Saudi Arabia long ago. But an unexpected discovery seems to broaden the gene pool ...

Guided tours will take visitors onto scaffolding to view the rare artwork inside Sforza Castle, which is currently undergoing ...

Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according ...

A new book by author Julian Sancton explores the lengthy quest to find the Spanish galleon—and the political firestorm that ...

The spiky desert succulents typically blossom beginning in late February. But this season, many started growing flowers up to ...

“The presence of liquid water [on Mars] is a broad topic that includes rains, rivers, lakes, as well as oceans,” says Ezat ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...