The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gives the climate event a 63% chance to "rank among the largest El Niño ...

This rare example of an Aztec ritual mask was carved from wood over five centuries ago to represent Mictlantecuhtli, the god ...

Space Space Exploration Artemis II crew captures rare double auroras on the dark side of Earth as they zoom toward the moon — Space photo of the week The four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission ...

People with a rare condition experience "pauses" in their heart beat that cause them to faint. A new procedure could change ...

Animals Wildlife inside Chernobyl exclusion zone acted differently during Russia's invasion, camera traps reveal Camera footage in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone revealed that mammals became less ...

Planet Earth Atacama Desert’s center dried out 20 million years earlier than previously thought — before the Andes formed Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of ...

The findings, published June 11 in the journal Science, come from the largest-ever map of Denisovan-inherited DNA ever created. The discovery shows that Denisovan DNA "is not just a remnant of ancient ...

Archaeology 5,000-year-old burial of man with battered skull found in kiln in Germany — and he may have been a human sacrifice An injured man from the Corded Ware culture was buried in a pit ...

Archaeology Wreck of World War II Japanese 'hellship' that sank with more than 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered off the Philippines The remains of a Japanese "hellship" that was torpedoed in 1944 ...

Animals Fish Sharks 'I never thought we'd see one alive': Elusive goblin shark captured on camera for the first time Researchers have filmed goblin sharks in the deep sea for the first time. Until now ...

In response to the Disneyland outbreak, we ended up passing SB-277 in California and a number of other important vaccination ...