To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Live Science asked a dozen scientists to share their favorite facts about our home planet. These researchers marveled at everything from backward flowing rivers in Antarctica to the Giant Crystal Cave of…
Norris Geyser Basin at sunset A swath of Yellowstone National Park larger than Chicago has been rising and falling in erratic jitters over the past 20 years, and it’s all because of some wayward magma, a new study finds. This…
The sacred plaza, seen here, was at the heart of Girsu. A cultic area that had over 300 broken ceremonial objects was recently uncovered near its entrance. Archaeologists recently unearthed a 5,000-year-old cultic area that held fiery feasts, animal sacrifices…
The “Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito” was thought to be a living “world tree” for ancestral Puebloans. But researchers have found that it grew 50 miles away and was dead when it was hauled there. A towering ponderosa pine discovered…
A skull of one of Cui Shu’s beloved donkeys. Scientists recently found the first evidence that nobles in imperial China played donkey polo, in the tomb of a wealthy, important woman who died in Xi’an more than 2,000 years ago.…
A Russian Soyuz 2.1v rocket launches a classified military satellite into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russian on Nov. 25, 2019. The satellite can apparently track other satellites in orbit. Russia just fired an anti-satellite missile in a…