While winter tires are a more permanent solution for season-long use, tire chains are a solid option in a pinch—like for ...

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

A quarry worker was stripping clay from the ground when he felt odd bumps—they turned out to be part of a ...

Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck.

Aerial firefighters have always been a critical line of defense against raging wildfires. But increasingly extreme blazes and ...

If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if ...

These sleek pocket knives deploy easily and are comfortable in hand. After six months of carrying different models around, ...

In 1831, a massive volcanic eruption cooled the Earth’s atmosphere by 1 degree Celsius and even caused the Sun to appear in ...

If your area experiences high amounts of snowfall each winter, then you might be wondering how your roof can handle the ...

Jessica Fu has reported on environmental issues for The Guardian, The New York Times, High Country News, and other publications. She is based in Seattle, Washington.

Rujm el-Hiri, dubbed the “Stonehenge of the East” with a 492-foot diameter, has baffled experts since it was discovered in ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...