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A new study on chimpanzees in Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire supports a theory that humans may have inherited a taste for alcohol from primate ancestors.

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new research has found.

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life.

When we confirmed the eggs were fertile without any contact with a male, our jaws hit the floor," a U.K. zoo director said after an iguana gave birth to eight healthy babies.

People in 18 U.S. states could see the green or red glow of the aurora in the sky Monday night into Tuesday.

"Spicomellus is one of the strangest dinosaurs that we've ever discovered," the project's leader said.

Divers have collected evidence of a Stone Age settlement lost to rising seas after the last ice age from the seabed off Denmark's coast.

The first commercial carbon storage facility has been inaugurated off Norway's coast, but is storing CO2 deep under the seabed really the answer?

Experts at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute care for endangered species on 32,000 sprawling acres in Northern Virginia.

As Hurricane Erin hovered over the Atlantic Ocean, the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was spotted from above by cameras on the ISS.