Past classified reviews looking for alien life have found stranger things about life in Washington.

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from ...

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.

Understanding history helps us make sense of the present and even make predictions for the future. It’s not just historians who study history, but scientists as well. As climate change shifts the ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

Archaeology isn’t just pottery shards and treasure. Sometimes, digging into the past uncovers grim reminders of how people once lived, and then perished. Internet users shared the most haunting ...