In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It's ...

The recorded history of Laos begins with the reign of the 14th-century Fa Ngum, a former exile at the Khmer court who not only succeeded in unifying his fragmented province, but expanded its ...

A mysterious shock wave hit Earth last night and cracked the region that protects us from radiation. While scientists do not know its origin, they believe it came from a solar flare from the sun.

This arid desert valley in California holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth at 56.7 degrees Celsius. And the highest surface temperature ever recorded was 93.9 ...

Discover 20 surreal places on Earth that look like alien worlds, from glowing caves to vast deserts — these landscapes are out of this world.

Researchers uncovered a 220-million-year-old dinosaur with a severe bone infection - now on display at the University of Zurich.

The Earth is protected by a powerful magnetic field that helps keep us and other life forms safe from ejections from the Sun. These ejections launch charged particles and cosmic rays, but the magnetic ...

Cracked earth in Greece's saffron heartland as drought takes toll At a field outside Kozani, northern Greece, the strikingly blue-and-purple petals of saffron give off an intoxicating scent that ...

Researchers on a mission to understand the origins of life just learned a small lesson about photosynthesis from 1.75 billion years ago.According to a team of academics' recent study published in ...

‘Utama’ Review: This Bitter Earth In Bolivia’s official submission to the next Oscars, an old Quechua couple struggle to find water to sustain them, their crops and llamas.

The long-standing puzzle of how and why diamonds erupt from Earth’s interior having spent billions of years locked up at the roots of continents has been solved by scientists, led by an Irishman ...

In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings.It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the bluish-green peyote plant can be ...