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NASA Aims to Launch the World's First Planet-Hopping Spacecraft Powered by Nuclear Fission

See the Stunning 171-Year-Old Sketch That Helped Put Yosemite on the Map

Archaeologists Discover an Intact Cannonball From the Battle of the Alamo—One Day Before the Pivotal Conflict's 190th Anniversary

Scientists Capture the First Known Footage of Sperm Whales Headbutting, a Long-Debated Behavior That Inspired 'Moby-Dick'

In One of the Wettest Places on the Planet, Indigenous People Build Bridges and Ladders Out of Living Tree Roots

How a Small Winter Flower Has Attracted Droves of Admirers—and Offers a Symbol of Resilience

A New Nail Polish Might Someday Solve Touch Screen Struggles for Users With Long Fingernails

Archaeologists Are Mystified by These 2,000-Year-Old Bodies Found Seated Upright and Facing West in France

A Bronze Age Loom Sheds New Light on Mediterranean Textile Practices

Archaeologists Unearth More Than 40,000 Pieces of Pottery That Ancient Egyptians Used Like Scrap Paper

This Critically Endangered Bird's Song Was About to Disappear. Scientists Saved It by Recruiting Some Wild Vocal Tutors

Scientists May Have Discovered a New Type of Planet Beyond the Solar System. The Catch? It Smells Like Rotten Eggs

A History of Momo, the Dumpling That Defines Nepali Cuisine

Archaeologists Identify Traces of Children's Fingerprints Still Visible on Clay Beads Created 15,000 Years Ago

Seeing Life Differently: Navigating Geographic Atrophy with Resilience

Platypus Hair Shares a Puzzling Feature With Bird Feathers, Adding to the Egg-Laying Mammal's List of Unusual Characteristics

Finland Is Named the Happiest Country in the World for the Ninth Year in a Row

This Suspected Meteorite Tore Through the Roof of a Suburban Houston Home

These Mesmerizing Waterfalls Flow Only Every Few Years. See the Rare Marvel Now in Southwest Utah

A New Book of Toni Morrison's University Lectures, Now Collected for the First Time, Shares Some of the Legendary Novelist's Most Important Lessons

These Stunningly Detailed 3D Images of Ants Showcase the Remarkable Diversity Across Their Species

Humans and Animals Often Like the Same Mating Calls, Supporting a 150-Year-Old Observation by Charles Darwin

Popular Lore Claims That William Howard Taft Got Stuck in a Bathtub. New Research Sheds Light on the Legend's Forgotten Origins

These Historic Snuffboxes Associated With 18th-Century Monarchs Were Stolen in a Shocking Heist. Now, They're Back on Public Display

Contrary to Popular Belief, Some Doodle Crossbred Dogs May Have More Behavioral Problems Than Their Purebred Parents

Archaeologists Unearth Traces of a Mysterious Medieval City That Was Abandoned Under Puzzling Circumstances Hundreds of Years Ago

See Ramses II's Intricately Decorated Coffin and Rare Treasures From His Reign at This New Immersive Exhibition

This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water

See the 2,500-Pound Bronze Bison as They Arrive at Their New, Permanent Place at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

View Australia’s Wonderful Wildlife, Including Kangaroos, Koalas and Crocs, With These 15 Photographs

Humans May Have Transported Live Parrots Over the Andes Mountains Along Sophisticated Trade Routes Before the Rise of the Inca Empire

Scientists Make a Major Breakthrough in Solving a Hair-Raising Mystery About Static Electricity

European Hedgehogs' Hearing Might Be Attuned to Ultrasonic Sounds. The Discovery Could Help Scientists Save the Declining Species

At the Colosseum, New Marble Slabs Mark Where Towering Columns Stood Thousands of Years Ago

Alien Life Could Look Nothing Like What We Expect. Here's How Microbes Beyond Earth Might Live Without Liquid Water

England’s ‘Constable Country’ Is Honoring the 250th Birthday of Its Namesake, Landscape Artist John Constable, With a Year of Exhibitions

A Groundskeeper Noticed a Sinkhole on a Golf Course. It Turned Out to Be a Wine Cellar Full of Empty Bottles, Untouched for More Than 100 Years

An Experimental Brain Implant Allows People With Paralysis to Type Their Thoughts With Their Minds

David Hockney Used an iPad to Create This Sprawling 295-Foot-Long Frieze Inspired by the 11th-Century Bayeux Tapestry

Rodents Don't Gnaw Just to Trim Their Teeth—It Also Feels Good, According to a New Study

A Meteor Streaked Across the Morning Sky as a Dazzling 'Fireball' Before Exploding With a Thunderous Boom Above Ohio

A Quaker Woman Eavesdropped on British Soldiers Plotting a Surprise Attack—and Surreptitiously Warned George Washington

This Diver Stumbled Upon a Centuries-Old Sword Beneath the Mediterranean Sea. Years Later, He Found Another One Nearby

Cannibalistic Blue Crabs Are Eating Their Younger Peers in Part of the Chesapeake Bay

The Brilliant Blue Paint Covering This Lavish Room in Ancient Pompeii May Have Cost More Than Half the Annual Salary of a Roman Foot Soldier

Frank Lloyd Wright's Vision for the Martin House Included Everything Inside It. See How Experts Recovered Furniture, Artworks and Decorative Glass

Some Antibiotic Drugs Can Alter Your Gut Microbiome for Up to Eight Years, New Research Suggests

Bull Sharks Are Large, Aggressive Predators—but They Also Know How to Make 'Friends,' New Research Suggests

Traveling Along the U.S. Civil Rights Trail

These Sea Slugs Can 'Eat' Sunlight—but They're No Astrophage. Here's How the 'Project Hail Mary' Antagonist Has a Real-Life Analogue in Earth's Oceans