The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

In the 1860s, white settlers flocked to what would become Marysvale, where the Deer Trail Mine is now located, with high hopes to strike gold, silver, and copper. By the 1930s, though, most of the ...

A metallic, pot-like artifact that reportedly was unearthed from a pile of rocks by workers who were building St. Peter’s Church on Bowdoin Street 174 years ago continues to be the source of ...

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

Picking the world's most beautiful country feels borderline impossible. How do you even compare the icy drama of fjords with ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from ...

Past classified reviews looking for alien life have found stranger things about life in Washington.

Every so often, an indie game surfaces that immediately grabs you by the collar and whispers, “You’re not ready for what’s down here.” Sub-Species is exactly that kind of problem. It’s a 2.5D ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

As the research team from Penn State and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed decades of deep-space communication logs, they found patterns in how we have beamed signals into the cosmos. Their ...

When cave biologist Hazel Barton ventured into the pitch darkness, the last thing she expected to find were organisms harnessing energy from light. This new understanding of photosynthesis in the dark ...