A coin stash worth more than $340,000 could have been hidden in the hills of the Czech Republic during one of the 20th ...

Very little is known about Powelliphanta augusta, an elusive snail species threatened with extinction. The new footage is the ...

Archaeologists can estimate a person's sex with 95% accuracy, but many experts are focused on what can be learned about ...

A strange atmospheric pattern known as an "omega block" is preventing the usual eastward progression of weather across the ...

Asian needle ants found in the southeastern states of the U.S. have been spreading north and west for years, but experts now ...

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us need around eight hours. Researchers described the SIK3-N783Y mutation in ...

A report into April's deadly flooding has found that climate change made the central Mississippi River valley's extreme weather event more likely and more intense.

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in ...

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...