There are places on this planet that feel less like corners of the Earth and more like fragments from a dream, or perhaps the ...

Uranus, our side-spinning planet of rebellion, liberation, and chaos with a capital C, swaps the placid materialist pastures ...

It began as an ordinary family lunch, a chance, perhaps, for reconciliation over a carefully prepared meal. But by the end of ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Generations of Texans gather at the river’s stunning headwaters, which have been carved by cycles of catastrophic floods.

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape.

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

It seems certain to me that, on the same walk, two beings, unless they resemble each other in some strange sense, could not ...

During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...