An accident in the middle of the night damaged one of the world’s most important observatories—and scientists still don’t know what caused it
The tiny sauropod had a horn on its snout and forward-facing eyes, unlike its adult counterparts
Illegal gold diggers dug an enormous trench at Jabal Maragha in the eastern Sahara Desert
After wastewater monitoring detected the virus in a dorm’s sewage, the school discovered and quarantined two asymptomatic infections
Researchers used models and data from fossilized plankton to determine the global average temperature at the time
Frans Hals' "Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer" was previously purloined in 1988 and 2011
The large red flashes of light only last for milliseconds
The London institution, which reopened this week, is reckoning with its colonialist history in the wake of global protests against racism
100 Years of Women at the Ballot Box
The organization will allocate $460,000 toward projects at 23 parks across the country
The blast was over 3,000 times bigger than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima
The primates—likely imported from India to the then-Roman province—were laid to rest with care
A recent study found the simple intervention reduced bird mortality by 72 percent
Experts announced Tuesday that the disease, which can cause paralysis and death in young children, has been virtually eliminated from the continent
New research suggests displays of emotion may transcend time and culture
100 Years of Women at the Ballot Box
Today, New York City welcomed a public artwork honoring three suffragists. But some scholars argue that the statue obscures more than it celebrates
A close-up taken in August shows the 11,000-mile-wide cloud of dust and gas that shrouds the comet
A trio of wolverines—a mom and two kits—were spotted on camera traps in the park
On an annual summer fossil collecting trip, the undergraduates struck it big in South Dakota
The 24-carat currency dates to the ninth century, when the Abbasid Caliphate ruled much of the Near East and North Africa
A 57-work retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago charts the evolution of the 16th-century painter's distinctive style
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