Researchers examined lunar soil samples collected during the Apollo missions to determine which weathering processes contribute most to replenishing the moon's atmosphere | Continue reading
A farmer stumbled upon the 4,000-year-old artifacts while working in his field in central Ireland | Continue reading
Fe, who is at least 38 years old, initially rose to fame as one half of the "resident power couple" at Michigan's Seney National Wildlife Refuge | Continue reading
The very hungry, spiky custodians gobble up the algae that smother coral reefs | Continue reading
Giddyap and get a look at these stunning selections from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest | Continue reading
Novel materials are hitting assembly lines with just the right properties to build cars that are both safer and more fuel-efficient | Continue reading
One piece features a goat perched on a ledge, while the other shows two elephants in windows | Continue reading
Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between "muscle and mind" | Continue reading
The samples from China's Chang'e 5 mission shed light on lunar resources that could be vital to future missions and habitations | Continue reading
Researchers think the hoard, which dates to the fifth century B.C.E., may have been buried during a time of upheaval | Continue reading
Researchers propose that a system of water could have lifted heavy stones to the height necessary to construct the Step Pyramid | Continue reading
Artist Iván Argote hopes the artwork, titled "Dinosaur," will inspire "attraction, seduction and fear" | Continue reading
PaleoScan offers scientists at far-flung institutions a less expensive way to digitize their collections and preserve at-risk specimens of fish, turtles, pterosaurs and more | Continue reading
A new study suggests schooling fish use up to 79 percent less energy in rough conditions than fish that swim alone | Continue reading
Crews were constructing a new archaeology center when they stumbled upon the historic structure's foundations and accompanying artifacts | Continue reading
By being nature's clean-up crew, the often maligned birds help prevent the spread of diseases, according to a new study | Continue reading
A subterranean plumbing system of magma beneath the island’s Reykjanes Peninsula may have helped set off the recent series of eruptions that could last for centuries | Continue reading
Standing alongside civil rights leader Daisy Bates, the singer-songwriter will represent the state of Arkansas in Statuary Hall | Continue reading
The annual celestial event is one of the year's most anticipated, and it will peak from August 11 to 12 | Continue reading
Nearly 100 large fires are burning in the United States right now, including some in rattlesnake territory | Continue reading
Seventeen-year-old Gyeongyun Lily Min is hopeful it can someday, after testing the concept on a scale model of an NBA stadium | Continue reading
New research sheds light on John Andrew Jackson, who sought help from Harriet Beecher Stowe during his escape from bondage | Continue reading
After months of uncertainty, the women's and men's triathlon events kicked off with a dip in the long-polluted waterway that runs through the heart of Paris | Continue reading
Scientists were cautiously optimistic about Perseverance's discovery, though they indicated further research is needed before drawing definitive conclusions | Continue reading
The 500-mile-long stone highway is Italy's 60th property to receive the designation | Continue reading
The blood test accurately diagnosed Alzheimer's around 90 percent of the time, compared to 73 percent for specialists and 61 percent for primary care physicians | Continue reading
The pups are dispersing seeds at an urban nature reserve—just like their wild wolf ancestors used to do before being hunted to extinction | Continue reading
Fossils reveal a prehistoric, mouse-like creature matured slower and lived longer than similar mammals of today | Continue reading
The tiny village of Teahupo’o, known for its monstrous, barrel-shaped waves, will host 48 athletes from 21 countries during the Summer Games | Continue reading
The first jungles dense with flowering plants only formed after an asteroid impact wiped out the giant creatures | Continue reading
Found near Naples, the marble slabs once adorned a villa in a city known as the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire | Continue reading
Released in 1964, the divisive experimental film is being screened in honor of its 60th anniversary | Continue reading
This shrimp-like arthropod was among the first to have a mandible, and it used a complex feeding mechanism during the Cambrian explosion, according to a new study | Continue reading
The track incorporates recycled mussel and clam shells in a bid to help make the Summer Games the most sustainable yet | Continue reading
The items also went on display in an exhibition that detailed the repatriation process | Continue reading
Researchers found that electric currents from polymetallic nodules are behind this alchemy—the same minerals that deep-sea miners are targeting | Continue reading
France’s charming capital city welcomes the 2024 Summer Olympic Games | Continue reading
In patterns that may sound familiar, long-term studies reveal what elderly deer, sheep and macaques are up to in their twilight years | Continue reading
Canines that smelled the sweat of anxious people were less likely to approach a bowl that might have contained food, indicating humans' emotions can affect dogs' behavior | Continue reading
Artist Lily Hevesh spent ten days creating the elaborate installation at the National Building Museum | Continue reading
The rover’s wheel cracked open a rock and revealed pure elemental sulfur, which researchers have never seen on the Red Planet before | Continue reading
At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, an installation by artist Glenn Kaino made in collaboration with Smith reclaims the Olympian’s iconic gesture | Continue reading
From sleeping porches to coastal escapes, these tips and tricks helped people deal with extreme heat before the advent of air-conditioning | Continue reading
Hydrothermal explosions typically occur every year in the popular national park, but rarely in areas so heavily trafficked by visitors | Continue reading
The fragment, which was part of Washington's dining marquee during the Revolutionary War, is now on display at a museum in Philadelphia | Continue reading
Before the papacy relocated in the 1300s, first to Avignon and then to the Vatican, pontiffs lived at the Lateran Palace | Continue reading
The only known wild Wood's cycad was discovered in 1895, and it has since been cloned into many male trees. Now, researchers are scouring a forest in South Africa for an elusive female specimen | Continue reading
The captain said he would "rather lose any sum of money than to have the brute perish as he did" | Continue reading