On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. At the time, Ceres was considered to be a planet. But after ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Shell PLC discovered oil in the Norphlet formation near Appomattox in the Gulf of Mexico, said INEOS Energy in a Dec. 22 release. The Nashville exploration well was drilled more than 5 miles beneath ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details about the enormous reptiles that once roamed the Earth Newly discovered species ...

A university student cracked open a rock in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park and uncovered Canada’s first dinosaur-era dragonfly fossil. That 75-million-year-old wing from the late-Cretaceous, the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope ...

The Green Bay Packers made a swap on their 53-man roster on Monday. The team placed tight end John FitzPatrick on the injured reserve, following his Achilles tear, and has activated defensive end ...

to Donald Trump, Venezuela was first all about narcotics. Now it is all about narcotics, oil, and the theft of American assets. In the past week, Trump has added to his pressure campaign on President ...

Red Nudibranch. Credit: Matt Kieffer – CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Scientists believe they have discovered at least 20 new species in a deep section of the Pacific Ocean following a mission to ...

Scientists believe they have discovered at least 20 new species in a deep part of the Pacific Ocean. The discoveries were found after researchers from the California Academy of Sciences retrieved 13 ...