Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

As fascinating as bizarre signals from other planets can be—teaching us about earthquakes on Mars or auroras in the skies of Jupiter —sometimes even weirder signals come from weather extremes ...

The discovery of a mysterious culture're path through the White Sands National Park pushes the understanding of North American human history back by 10,000 years ...

​A remarkable 1,000-year-old artefact has been discovered at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy, by Federica Gigante, a historian from the University of Cambridge. It may not ...

Earth's oceans have been warming at unprecedented rates, yet one mysterious blob of water, just south of Greenland, has ...

Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...

Last week saw scientists celebrating a breakthrough in bowel cancer prevention. The study, by the University of Edinburgh and ...

The only thing most of us know about fossils is probably from the second grade or from random TV shows over the years. In depth knowledge of all the different types of fossils has usually been ...

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a mysterious object streak across the sky.