Alexander the Great's empire spanned much of the known world, but historians are still debating whether he knew about the ...

Lake Urmia has dried up, triggering environmental collapse and deepening political and ethnic tensions among Iran’s ...

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As companies search underwater for resources, scientists are taking inventory of the ocean-dwelling creatures that could be ...

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat ...

Through the analyses of gases and fluids preserved within salt crystals, the team extended the direct record of Earth’s ...

Scientists have found a new species of worm in the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and they believe this creature only resides in this body of water and is not anywhere else in the world. This is the largest ...

Scientists say they're not sure exactly how the newly discovered species found its way into the enormous US lake.

Antarctica holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth, with Russia’s Vostok Station plunging to −128 ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered an unusual formation on Jupiter’s moon – and NASA says it may hold the secret to extraterrestrial ...

A strange spider-like formation on one of Jupiter's moons may be the smoking gun in the search for extraterrestrial life in ...

The team’s analysis, published as a study in The Planetary Science Journal, suggest that Damhán Alla, and other features like it, may be the festering wounds formed by torrents of water erupting ...