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Mary, Queen of Scots, Wrote This Letter Hours Before She Was Executed. Her Words Are Going on Display for the First Time in Years

Dig In to the Traditions Behind Two Holiday Dishes That Make the Season Even More Delicious

Have $117 to Spend? You Could Win a Picasso Painting Worth More Than $1 Million

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is About to Make Its Closest Approach to Earth. Here's How to View It With Binoculars or a Telescope

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025 Is 'Slop,' the A.I.-Generated Junk That Fills Our Social Media Feeds

These Five Photos of Germany’s Natural Wonders Will Inspire Your Wanderlust

Disney Was in Distress During the Late 1940s. Then ‘Cinderella’ Came to the Rescue and Saved the Company From Financial Disaster

Archaeologists Unearth Cache of Aboriginal Stone Tools Buried in Australia 170 Years Ago

Mysteriously Young 'Mammoth' Fossils Discovered in Alaska Turned Out to Be Whale Bones

These Owls Took a Free Vacation on a Cruise Ship—but Soon They'll Be Heading Home

The Ten Best Children's Books of 2025 Feature a Story of Untrustworthy Fish and a Tribute to a Beloved Bus Driver

Pompeii's Graffiti Captures Every Joke, Boast and Argument of an Ancient Roman City Frozen in Time

Louvre Robbers Escaped With Less Than a Minute to Spare Due to Major Security Fumbles

The Iconic 'Rocky' Statue at the Philadelphia Art Museum Steps Is Still Stirring Up Strong Feelings

Scientists Engineered Cancer-Fighting Cells Inside Patients' Bodies—and Two Early Trials Show Promise

This Landscape Inspired Some of Georgia O'Keeffe's Best-Known Works. Now, It's Receiving New Protections

Trail Cameras in Vermont Captured Something Strange: Moths Sipping a Moose's Tears

The High-Stakes Quest to Make Snakebites Survivable Took Leaps Forward This Year, With Promising New Avenues to Safer Antivenoms

Jane Austen's Letters Are the Closest We Can Get to Her. What Do They Reveal About the 'Pride and Prejudice' Author?

Could These 400,000-Year-Old Rock Fragments Be the Oldest Known Evidence of Human Fire-Making?

Watch These Orcas Follow Dolphins to Snag a Salmon Feast. It Might Be the First Evidence of These Species Working Together

Notre-Dame Cathedral’s Controversial New Stained-Glass Window Designs Go on Display

Before the First Brilliantly Colored Flowers Bloomed, Dinosaur-Era Plants Emitted Heat to Attract Pollinators

More Than 2,000 Golden Retrievers Gather in an Argentina Park in an Attempt to Break a World Record

The Bible’s Star of Bethlehem May Have Been a Comet, Analysis of Ancient Records Suggests

This Painting Introduced the World to 'Star Wars.' It Just Became the Most Expensive Item Connected to the Franchise Ever Sold at Auction

See 14 of the National Zoo's Most Adorable Giant Panda Photos From 2025

This Ancient Construction Site in the Ruins of Pompeii Is Revealing New Secrets About the 2,000-Year-Old Recipe for Roman Concrete

Nearly Complete Skull of a Dome-Headed Dinosaur Makes Its Way to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

Francis Ford Coppola Sells Luxury Watches for Millions Following Losses From 'Megalopolis'

Archaeologists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Pleasure Boat That May Have Once Made Luxurious Voyages Along the Nile

Bees Are Turning the Sticky-Sweet Secretions of Spotted Lanternflies Into Honey—and Some People Love the Smoky-Smelling Stuff

Astrophysicists Found an Abundance of Odd Elements Essential for Life in the Leftovers of an Exploded Star

Stream the Beautiful Highs and Violent Lows of Albatross Life With This New 24-Hour Camera on Midway Atoll

Modern Humans Reached Australia Around 60,000 Years Ago via Two Routes, Genetic Analysis Suggests

The Year's Best and Brightest Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend. Here's How to Watch the Radiant Geminids

You Can Now See 750-Year-Old Artifacts Recovered From England's Oldest Shipwreck

A Deadly Pathogen Decimated Sunflower Sea Stars. Look Inside the Lab Working to Bring Them Back by Freezing and Thawing Their Larvae

Historians Say This Rare Mosaic Found on a British Farm Depicts Scenes From a Long-Lost Account of the Trojan War

This Site in Bolivia Boasts 16,600 Exposed Dinosaur Footprints—The Most Ever Found in One Location

Can GLP-1s Help Fat Cats Lose Weight? The First Clinical Trial Testing the Drugs for Weight Loss in Felines Has Begun

Sixty Years Ago, When Instruments Were Played in Space for the First Time, It Was ‘Jingle Bells’ All the Way

Gas Stoves Are Poisoning Americans by Releasing Toxic Fumes Associated With Asthma and Lung Cancer

The Era of the New York City MetroCard Is Almost Over. Say Goodbye to the Iconic Yellow Passes With a New Exhibition

How a Near-Shipwreck on a Luxury Ocean Liner Inspired 'The Poseidon Adventure' and a Decade of Disaster Movies

A Scenic Road Winding Through Theodore Roosevelt National Park Finally Reopens After Six Years

This Stunning Image Shows a Skydiver Falling Across the Face of the Sun. Here’s How the Team Captured the Mesmerizing Photo

Can Chatting With an A.I. Bot Shift Our Political Beliefs?

Two Armed Thieves Stole Eight Matisse Prints From a São Paulo Library

Deep-Sea Mining Test in the Pacific Drastically Reduced Biodiversity and Animal Populations