A rock discovered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contains "the most diverse collection" of the building blocks of life ever ...
NASA's Curiosity rover has detected 21 organic molecules in 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rock, the most complex suite yet ...
The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now Sudan, was a major urban and cultural center of Kush, an ancient empire in Nubia. University of Michigan archaeologists and earth scientists examined ...
Two-dimensional maps of clinopyroxene crystals that passed through a volcano’s magma chamber display a sharp increase in ...
Few ancient sites inspire more debate than Göbekli Tepe, with some claiming it is far older and others insisting the accepted ...
In the fourth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines the ...
National Geographic's Wonder Lessons will teach you how to navigate the stars, spot cloud types, recognize common trees, and ...
Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...
It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon’s surface to begin ...
The Curiosity rover conducted a first-of-its kind experiment on Mars, detecting organic molecules that have never been ...
Anomalous copper mineralization (0.21% average) is coincident with the upper gold intercept for DD-03 (Choque Zone). In ...
The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...