Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...

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New research shows that the weapons found in Germany are much younger than previously thought, suggesting they were made by ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

While it went for well below the auction house's estimate, "Composition With Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and ...

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After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June ...

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Largely due to groundwater pumping and shifting of land after the last ice age, major urban areas are subsiding, which could ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...