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2.8 Million Stars Sparkle in This Incredible Image of the Milky Way
The Gaia star surveyor captured a densely packed area near the center of the galaxy
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Taiwan’s Yehliu Geopark Is Like Disneyland for Rock Lovers
These mushroom-like mounds are some of the country’s greatest geological treasures
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Astronomers Detect 15 Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts From a Distant Galaxy
The new cosmic blasts may help researchers finally figure out what’s producing the energy in space
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Colorado Construction Crew Unearths 66-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Fossil
While Thornton’s new Public Safety Facility, the crew happened upon a rare find
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The Grave of “China’s Shakespeare” Has Been Found
One of 42 Ming-era graves unearthed in Fuzhou is believed to belong to Tang Xianzu, who penned ‘The Peony Pavilion’
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A Triplet of Corpse Flowers Will Soon Release Their Stench in D.C.
If you can’t make it to D.C., you can still catch the action (smell free) via live stream
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It May Rain Diamonds Inside Neptune and Uranus
Scientists have finally simulated the long-proposed shower of gems
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The World Trade Center’s Only Surviving Art Heads Home
Battered, but not broken, Fritz Koenig’s “Sphere” is being reinstalled near its original location at Ground Zero
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Go Behind the Glass of Churchill’s Underground War Rooms
Exploring the secrets of the storied bunker—from its well-worn maps to a leader under extreme duress
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After 72 Years, Wreck of USS Indianapolis Found, Closing Chapter on Tragic Tale
After the ship was sunk by a Japanese torpedo, surviving crew members had to battle dehydration, exposure and deadly shark attacks
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Part of Henry VIII’s Birthplace Discovered
Workers uncovered two rooms of Greenwich Palace while building a visitors center at the Old Royal Naval College in London
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Brilliantly White Moose Photographed in Sweden
It took a local politician three years to finally capture a video of the elusive ghostly creature
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Watch Free Live Streams of Outer Space
The astronomy website Slooh has lifted the paywall on footage from its telescopes
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Is This Baby Animal the Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Apes?
The 13-million-year-old skull found in Kenya combines early ape and gibbon-like features
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The Centuries-Old Tradition of Military Quilting Is Getting Its First Exhibition in the U.S.
The display celebrates the art and craft of soldiers at war and offers insight into life in the military
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New Horizon’s Next Target Is an Oddly Shaped Asteroid
New data shows that MU69 is less than 20 miles long and may actually be two asteroids orbiting one another
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New Storm as Big as Earth Is Stirring Up Neptune’s Atmosphere
Astronomers aren’t sure if the 5,600-mile-wide storm will peter out or if a deep vortex will keep it churning
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This Animated Movie About Van Gogh Is Made Entirely of Oil Paintings
Loving Vincent will include more than 56,000 paintings
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Was the “Sleeping Dragon” Dinosaur a Red Head?
A new study suggests the perfectly preserved armored nodosaur camoflauged itself against marauding meat-eaters
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Archaeologists Discover a “Little Pompeii” in Eastern France
Fires in a Roman neighborhood in Sainte-Colombe helped preserve ancient homes, shops and artifacts
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