Mars, now a dusty world of rusted rock and thin air, once carried enough water to transform its face into something far more ...

Sixty years ago, these freshwater springs and forests were drowned by a 9,500-acre reservoir. Could the ecosystem finally be ...

DNA reveals that in prehistoric China, men remained in their community, while women joined new family lineages.

In Myakka River State Park you can climb a wooden tower, cross a narrow skywalk, and look out over the tree canopy for a ...

Archaeologists working near Yulin in Shaanxi Province have recorded 573 ancient stone-walled fortress settlements. The Yulin ...

Researchers reveal Karnak Temple was built on rare high ground rising from Nile waters, linking landscape, belief, and ...

Archaeologists have identified hundreds of ancient structures hidden beneath the dense canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó ...

Mars is no longer just a blank red canvas for planetary scientists. A new generation of high resolution maps is turning the ...

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along ...

We’ve known for a while that Mars was once a wet world. But there’s always been a geological puzzle regarding how and where that water moved. On Earth, rivers are largely driven by plate tectonics.

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through highlands, lakes pooled inside craters, and floods tore open canyon walls.

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...