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A 1,000-year-old stone structure in Mexico may represent how some people in ancient Mesoamerica believed the Earth was created, an archaeologist suggests.

January skywatchers are in for a rare treat: a Blue Moon, a total lunar eclipse and a supermoon all in the same month.

X-ray light from the Perseus cluster of galaxies may finally reveal the true nature of one of the most mysterious substances in the cosmos: dark matter.

Heavyweight stars up to hundreds of times the mass of the sun may be more abundant than previously thought, a new study finds.

Scientists are set to unlock the secrets hidden in a 600-year-old manuscript, which depicts a series of ancient wars that inspired George RR Martin’s "Games of Thrones."

The discovery of centuries-old pistol parts in Colorado is shedding new light on the state’s Spanish Colonial history.

Well, we always knew the alien-megastructure idea was a long shot.

Astronomers spotted giant bubbles on the surface of a huge red-giant star, showing for the first time the convective cells that move heat around in these enormous objects.

About halfway through its two-year trek to the asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took some stunning images of Earth and the moon as it whizzed past its home planet last fall.

The National Park Service raced through the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday to save an estimated 500 hundred hypothermic sea turtles.

NASA's Earth Observatory has provided stunning images of the "temperature anomaly" in the U.S., as much of the country faces the grip of a winter storm dubbed the "bomb cyclone."

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine have developed a DNA vaccine, which could have the makings of a one-dose universal flu protection. Here's how it works.

DNA from an infant who died in Alaska some 11,500 years ago is giving scientists the best look yet at the genetics of the ancestors of today's native peoples of the Americas.

Footage of an almost extinct species known as the “world’s ugliest pig” has been captured in the wild for the first time.

Deaths from from lightning strikes hit a record low in 2017 in the United States, according to a new report.

Look up at the sky on Jan. 31 and you may witness a sight unseen for 150 years.

NASA astronauts successfully sequenced the DNA of microbes found aboard the International Space Station, marking the first time unknown organisms were sequenced and identified entirely in space.

Looking like a prehistoric art gallery, rock paintings depicting dogs, horses, boats and processions of people decorate the walls and ceilings of limestone overhangs on a tiny island in Indonesia, scientists have found.

A 1,300-year-old structure containing 14 engraved stone pillars was recently discovered in Mongolia, hinting at a centuries-old power struggle that may have ended in assassination.

When Habelia optata first skittered into public consciousness more than a century ago, scientists didn't know what to make of it.