Climate change's rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken ...

Deckhand Todd Meadows died last month during production on season 22 of the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch. At the time his death was first reported, very few details we ...

In the heart of the Egyptian Desert, Wadi Al-Hitan, or “Valley of the Whales,” fossilised whale skeletons lie exposed beneath the sun. Their vertebrae.

Sea Lion Caves in Florence is that rare natural wonder where the journey down is just as mind-blowing as the destination, and ...

While exploring ancient seabeds in Morocco, scientists discovered strange wrinkle-like textures in deep-water sediments that shouldn’t have been there. These structures are usually made by ...

Steep rocky ridges rise beside the coastal highway near the sea. This formation is part of the terrain along the Makran ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz now ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...

Rising sea levels due to climate change may threaten tens of millions more people than previously thought, according to a new ...

A mine collapse at Congo’s key Rubaya coltan site kills large numbers of miners, and officials and rebels sharply dispute the death toll. Congolese mining authorities say the collapse happened ...

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, scientists expected to see a frozen, inactive world at the edge of the solar system. Instead, they found surprising geological features and ...