A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the ...

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid ...

Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals.

A likely source of contamination has been identified in an ongoing Listeria outbreak affecting California and Nevada.

A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million ...

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

For those in midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the arc of our galaxy becomes easier to see in May. Here's when and ...

May's full moon appeared full all weekend, but will peak tonight (Monday, May 12). Here's everything you need to know about ...