Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

Republican legislators and the Trump Administration have launched a multi-pronged effort to cut back national monuments in ...

We live with a compulsion to leave behind a legacy. The evidence of our existence sometimes stays and sometimes fades: a ...

Helen Hunt leading a stellar cast in "Betrayal" at the Goodman, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky performing at the Lyric Opera, and ...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— Tribes, conservation organizations and community groups today defended Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, which ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

That's good news for NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side later this ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

The team ventured into the partially flooded cave as part of an ongoing research project. See what they found inside.

Scientists from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have discovered a vast quarry floor covered with hundreds of ...

Nestled in the heart of the Chihuahuan Desert, just a stone’s throw from El Paso, Texas, lies a hidden gem that’s about to ...

Archaeologists in Italy found footprints of Pompeii inhabitants, revealing a dramatic flight from a bronze age Mount Vesuvius ...