China’s Shenzhou-21 mission has sent its youngest astronauts, Zhang Hongzhang and 32-year-old Wu Fei, to the Tiangong or ‘Heavenly Palace’ space station — accompanied by four black lab mice.

In Argentina’s Río Negro region, scientists discovered a 70-million-year-old, remarkably preserved carnivorous dinosaur egg ...

Part two of writer Rex Tan's recent adventure in the Gobi Desert - one marked by transport woes, breathtaking views, and ...

Researchers have unearthed two dinosaur "mummies" in the badlands of Wyoming, confirming duck-billed dinosaurs had hooves, alongside a string of other discoveries.

Florida wildlife officials have confirmed the state's second case of a deadly and highly contagious infection known as ...

Join these caravanners on a scenic journey across the desert from snapshots taken by entrants to the Smithsonian magazine ...

High in the Argentinian Andes, a team of palaeontologists has found a small dinosaur fossil with the first hints of the extended neck that distinguishes sauropod dinosaurs like Diplodocus. Named ...

It is a grape time of year in Ningxia. In August the harvest begins up north, in the shadow of the Helan mountains. By November more than 40,000 hectares of vineyards—an area roughly four times the ...

On November 20, 1959, at a pier in Brooklyn, the writer Peter Matthiessen boarded the M.V. Venimos, a freighter bound for Iquitos, a port town deep in the Peruvian Amazon. He was fresh off the ...

HELSINKI — China conducted an orbital launch Monday with no apparent advance indication, successfully sending the Shiyan-31 remote sensing test satellite into orbit. A Long March 2D rocket lifted off ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The Pacific pocket mouse, one of California’s smallest and rarest native mammals, has moved one step closer to permanent state protection. Last week, the California ...

Biologists in Brazil were pleasantly surprised after camera traps confirmed a stunning feat of endurance by an apex predator. Mongabay reported that a male jaguar has absolutely shattered an old ...