The term 'rare earth' dates to an 18th‑century Swedish mine and survives mainly out of habit. In truth, these 17 metals are ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

Frontman Stephen Malkmus and Pavement always went their own way and now, via filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, they have a witty ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did – and learn to ...

In a stunning new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, a distant and lopsided spiral galaxy has been revealed with ...

NASA and the European Space Agency recently shared an image of an oddly shaped spiral galaxy located about 190 million ...

The outcomes for the protagonists also differ, as in “The Downward Spiral,” the protagonist shoots himself in the head, leaving behind a suicide note. In “MG Ultra,” the protagonist hallucinates ...

The waters of Lake Taupō glisten under the New Zealand sun, hiding secrets both ancient and new along their volcanic shores.

A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red ...