The annual Comedy Pet Photography Awards has announced their winners.
The massive bird was adapted for swimming underwater and may have gone extinct when lakes dried up.
The famous pharaoh Ramesses II was once entombed in the sarcophagus, which has now been identified by its hieroglyphics.
Beautiful frescoes, rudimentary doodles, and a pair of skeletons are the latest discoveries out of Pompeii's ongoing excavations.
Several factors are contributing to what could be a record season for the ocean-borne storms.
The nascent space telescope has collected plenty of data since it launched, and now has produced the largest images of space taken from space.
Thankfully it was, as eleven hours of simulated Bronze Age combat revealed.
Astronomers have managed to measure the spin of a supermassive black hole, which could help reveal how they grew in the universe.
A recent solar storm triggered auroras around the world, but as millions watched this celestial display, its effects were also seen at the bottom of the ocean.
Our closest cousins carried some of the same pathogens we did, many of which are still around today.
The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged a nearly edge-on view of a lenticular galaxy. It's weird!
A deep-sea hooked squid was recently caught on film with its photophores alight when it mistook a research camera for prey.
Dozens of Egypt's most famous pyramids may have been built thanks to this long-lost transit corridor.
The event, which occurred when the universe was 740 million years young, gives scientists a clue about the number of light black holes in the universe.
Paleontologists found a new species of echinoderm that was halfway through the process of regeneration when it died.
The technology has implications for some of the most carbon-intensive processes on the planet.
Several stars that appeared to have formed 12 to 13 billion years ago were spotted in the Milky Way halo—basically, our galaxy's suburbs.
A severe geomagnetic storm triggered auroras around much of the globe this past weekend, but conspiracy theorists are falsely pointing to a human cause.
A completely scientific and not-at-all-vibes-based list of some of the sea's most special fish.
“We have a very rare event on our hands," according to space weather forecasters.
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