Jess Thomson

A massive boulder named Maka Lahi was recently found about 650 feet from the edge of a cliff in Tonga, and researchers believe that it may have been deposited by a tsunami around 7,000 years ago.

A brand new species of elasmosaur named Traskasaura sandrae has been identified from three specimens found on Vancouver Island.

Hurricane Helene captured by NOAA's GOES-16 satellite as it approached Florida on September 26, 2024.

The world's second-biggest rat species — a gargantuan woolly beast — was caught on camera in the mountains of New Guinea.

Former U.S. President Joe Biden's office announced that he has been diagnosed with "aggressive" prostate cancer, which has spread to his bones. Here's what to know about the disease.

The sun has released several powerful M- and X-class solar flares over the past few days, resulting in radio blackouts around the world.

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than scientists first thought.

The wrinkled, raisin-like patterns you get on your fingers after a long bath form the same patterns every time, new research suggests.

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid water to flood the planet with an ocean thousands of feet deep.

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

Winners and runners-up of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's 2025 Environmental Photography Award revealed.

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a door with a bed during Vesuvius's terrible eruption.

T. rex was previously suspected to have evolved in Asia and migrated to North America, but new research shows that the direct ancestors of this iconic dinosaur may have been the one to make the journey instead.

Two shipwrecks off Costa Rica were long thought to be the remains of pirate ships, but new analyses reveal that they were actually Danish ships that took part in the transatlantic slave trade.

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we may have evolved slower healing at some point in our ancestry.

Power blackouts that left millions of people across Spain and Portugal without electricity may have been caused by a bizarre atmospheric phenomenon, though the true cause is yet to be determined.

Uturuncu, a dormant volcano in Bolivia, appeared to be getting ready to erupt following earthquakes and "sombrero" shaped deformation — scientists have now worked out what's going on beneath the surface.

Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled sacs that form on or inside the ovaries for a variety of reasons. Often, they disappear on their own, but sometimes, they can grow very large, burst or cause an ovary to twist.

Researchers modeled how measles might spread in the U.S. in the coming decades, showing that more than 50 million cases could occur if current vaccination rates fell by half.

Scientists in the U.K. have developed a new material that may allow them to grow teeth in the lab, which could provide an alternative to fillings and dental implants someday.

Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen species of "hell ant" that lived 113 million years ago, making it the oldest ant fossil ever found.

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced by biological processes.

The rete ovarii, a poorly understood structure connected to the ovaries, may be much more essential to ovarian function than scientists initially thought.

Scientists have discovered evidence of large quantities of biosignature chemicals — only known to be made by life on Earth — on an exoplanet more than 100 light-years away. It could be the most promising sign yet of alien life.