Elana Glowatz

A new type of mollusk found living on a Florida shipwreck can shoot a web just like Spider-Man.

A genetic analysis proves that the native people in Alaska and western Canada are descendants of the ancient groups that first settled the Americas thousands of years ago.

Oreos have given their lives for the pursuit of science, so we owe it to them to watch the fiery lesson they have created.

A black hole would tear you to pieces and a supernova would vaporize you. Here’s how to die in space in style.

These weird star-shaped fossils are telling scientists how certain creatures came to dominate ancient oceans and outlasted climate change-related mass extinctions on Earth.

These medieval English villagers either feared the undead, so they mutilated corpses to prevent zombie attacks, or they were just a bunch of cannibals eating their neighbors.

A long-destroyed planet is haunting Mars, with its remains following Earth’s neighbor wherever it goes.

After a new discovery, there may have been at least one more ancient Egyptian pyramid that we thought.

It wants you to think it’s a two-headed serpent, but this “snake” with three eyes is not what it appears.

A fleet of robots that could one day travel to other planets and moons looking for aliens are packed with tools like buzzsaws and catapults.

This ancient girl had a baby before she fell to her death at the bottom of an underwater cave. Researchers say her remains are the oldest ever found in the Americas.

NASA has just turned off an especially helpful and loyal satellite that had finally reached the end of its life. Rest in peace, EO-1.

Scientists think they’ve figured out exactly how much air the Sun has sucked off of Mars, turning it from a warm and wet planet into a red wasteland.

Neanderthals may have thought like we do, which makes sense since cavemen and modern humans had sex.

While you wait for an opportunity to travel to Mars, check out these places right here on Earth that are similar to our space neighbor.

Are these dinosaurs boys or girls? We think we know, but one paleontologist says we shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

Scientists were baffled by the apparent youth of this Moon crater, but it turns out that Ina is just good at hiding her age.

When the wind blows on Saturn’s moon Titan, everything starts sticking together. It’s basically a giant static electricity generator.

Without environmental regulations, the United States would be covered in toxic waste, our water would be filthy and no trees or animals would be left.

An ancient royal palace uncovered in Mexico is the oldest ever found in the Valley of Oaxaca.

Lunar swirls are streaks of color on the Moon and are a feature that is unique to Earth’s only natural satellite.

In the winds rushing away from a supermassive black hole are all the right ingredients for new stars to be born.

Elephant tusks from Africa contain evidence of nuclear bomb explosions from far away, and those radioactive elements are key to fighting poachers.

Scientists say they studied thousands of dinosaur tracks during low tide, and this is what they learned about the history of dinos in Australia.

Dogs can smell drugs and bombs, and now they can be used to detect breast cancer too.

Thanks to this spacewalk, you’ll soon be able to pile into a taxi and take it straight to the International Space Station.

This simple trend might predict how much you are afraid of dying.

These spiders all have different ideas of what constitutes romance.

There’s a new brown dwarf in town, and it’s the biggest you have ever seen.