In December 1911, Roald Amundsen and his crew reached the South Pole, beating his rival, Robert Falcon Scott, by 35 days.

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers found that the vampire squid's genome kept much of its ancestral, squid-like ...

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete.

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

Archaeologists diving off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, have discovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old "pleasure barge" ...

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New images taken with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii confirm that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gotten brighter ...

A new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...

A thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.

Traumatic tattoos aren't like regular ones, and they often involve pencils.

A California woman was scheduled to have a large cyst removed but, in the lead-up to the procedure, learned she had a rare ...