Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as “dassies,” are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible…

Archaeologists excavating in the French Riviera have uncovered a massive Roman cremation cemetery. Careful work at the site has revealed…

The frigid conditions on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, allow simple molecules in its atmosphere to break one…

Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that may have been a temple from the Uruk…

Quick factsWhat it is: M82, an edge-on spiral starburst galaxyWhere it is: 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa…

The Bering Strait is a 52-mile-wide (85 kilometers), 165-foot-deep (50 meters) stretch of water between Alaska and Siberia. Today, it…

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After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s $10 billion…

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