A long-term study in a park in the Republic of Congo in Africa has shown that, surprisingly, wild chimpanzees and gorillas will seek out particular individuals of the other species to play with and ...

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

Wikimedia This mountain town occupies the Middlesboro Basin, which sounds like a boring geography term until you learn that ...

Hanauma Bay in Oahu is one of Hawaii’s most iconic natural wonders, formed within a volcanic crater and filled with ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

Ancient floods once ripped across Mars, carving the massive Shalbatana Vallis channel and reshaping the planet’s surface. New Mars Express images reveal a chaotic landscape of craters, lava, and ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found some of the oldest rocks ever studied on Mars at an outcrop named "Arethusa." ...

Ancient desert structures spotted from space are now at the center of a tense race between archaeology and modern gold mining ...

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...

Nordlingen is no ordinary German town. With its red roofs, church towers, and ring of ancient walls, it wears its medieval ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

Hidden beneath the Antarctic ice, the Wilkes Land crater is a colossal depression that may be the largest impact crater on Earth. Stretching over 500 km wide and located about 1.6 km below the surface ...