Centuries ago, the site was home to St. Leonard's Hospital, a sprawling monastic facility that provided care to sick ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

Bent over by age and arthritis, the Phillips, Wisconsin, resident continued to build life-size and larger-than-life concrete ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

Tove Jansson was a trailblazing illustrator and author—and the inventor of the beloved Moomins, the central characters of her ...

From the beautiful to the bizarre, this annual photographic showcase shines a light on some of our planet’s most breathtaking ...

With poignant wisdom and gentle wit, Charles M. Schulz reinvented the form and introduced the nation to Charlie Brown, Snoopy ...

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After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

The speedy, plant-eating creature lived in what is now Colorado roughly 150 million years ago, and its skeleton went on ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...