By Alan Yuhas Archaeologists in Peru have excavated a monumental chamber featuring elaborate murals of snakes, and a pillared hall with a...

By Derrick Bryson Taylor John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries that...

By Becky Ferreira At sunset on a late summer weekend in 1924, crowds flocked to curbside telescopes to behold the advanced alien...

By Franz Lidz The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an...

By Kenneth Chang Two private astronauts moved outside their spacecraft early Thursday morning, conducting the first-ever commercial...

By Kenneth Chang The Starliner has landed. Boeing’s troubled spacecraft has finally come home, but the two NASA astronauts who traveled...

By Becky Ferreira Scientists have discovered new evidence that the rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, abruptly ending the...

By Alexandra E. Petri They may be an ocean apart, but dinosaur footprints found in South America and Africa are so similar that their...