The Milky Way’s story is written in chemical fingerprints and stellar streams, revealing a complex history of ancient mergers and a future trajectory toward a massive collision with Andromeda. For most of human history, people saw the Milky Way as a...

Submerged off the coast of Java, a newly discovered ancient river system reveals surprising insights into the life and migration of Homo erectus. Submerged beneath the waters of the Madura Strait, a long-lost prehistoric landscape is offering...

Discover the Amazon Rainforest, its vast biodiversity, climate role, Indigenous cultures, and urgent conservation efforts. Explore facts, maps, species, and how you can help protect the world’s largest tropical forest. The Amazon Rainforest is more...

New 8,000‑year‑old settlement reshapes Indus Valley history, revealing a startling cause for the collapse of its great cities. Excavations in a trench at Bhirrana, Haryana, have yielded animal bones and teeth that record five millennia of climate...

A 5,000-mile seaweed belt sweeps the Atlantic, unexpectedly endangering beaches, reefs and tourism – the largest bloom ever recorded. A massive stretch of brown seaweed, spanning roughly 5,000 miles across the Atlantic, has resurfaced this summer, and...

A powerful drought in 2023 weakened the Amazon’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide, briefly turning the world’s largest rainforest into a net source of carbon. The Amazon rainforest is often called the lungs of the planet. That phrase is not...

Newly mapped geoglyphs expose the vast scale of an ancient civilization that reshaped southwestern Amazonia. When viewed from above, the southwestern Amazon looks like a continuous green blanket. Yet once the forest floor is examined, a network of...

The discovery of a mysterious fish in an unexpected location has launched a scientific expedition deep into subterranean worlds. A viral social media clip has led to a major biological breakthrough, as scientists have identified a previously unknown...