New research sheds lights on the possible identity of Cato, the Black man who conveyed the tailor's life-saving intelligence ...

A Smithsonian ecologist is trying to restore the plant, Spiranthes delitescens, which grows on Arizona’s sky islands ...

Archivists discovered notes for the project, called "The Spectator," in the artist's New York City office after he died in ...

NASA's DART mission proved we are able to change an asteroid's path by smashing a spacecraft into it, but exactly where we ...

The cephalopods appear to favor using their front arms, according to a new study, though their back arms help with locomotion ...

The limestone chamber is marked with inscriptions identifying the deceased and honoring the deity Jupiter. Officials say it's the first tomb of its kind to be found in the country ...

New research finds that 79 percent of Fiji's endemic ant species—those that are native to and only found on the archipelago—are in decline ...

Zagreb-born artist Nora Turato transforms everyday fragments of speech and text into a mirror of our shared unconscious ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to ...

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Spanish Civil War offered Melva L. Price and her fellow female activists an ...

The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...

Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact ...