Americans who have a TV or internet subscription with Cox Communications can expect to see their bills increase this month. The provider, which is the largest private broadband company in ...

In 1815, Mount Tambora experienced the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption's effects altered Earth’s climate for years and even led to the “year without summer” in 1816.

Some of the most stunning and spectacular sites on the planet are waterfalls. Not only are they beautiful, but these natural water breaks can have cultural significance, help shape landscapes, create ...

Back in 1998, astronomers made a curious discovery. By studying the behavior of distant supernovas, they concluded that the universe is not just expanding, but that this expansion is accelerating. The ...

Is it a fish? Is it a sea monster? Is it Cthulhu? In 1997, while using underwater microphones to monitor volcanic activity in the depths of the southern Pacific Ocean, researchers with NOAA’s Pacific ...

Solar calendar. Place of worship. UFO Landing site. Many uses have been theorized for Stonehenge. Researchers have now added another: monument to unity, they propose in an Archaeology International ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now marked itself safe from its closest-ever encounter with the sun. The probe sent a signal just before midnight on Dec. 26, saying it was “alive” and doing fine. This ...

The enigmatic idea of dark energy has consistently been referenced to explain the universe’s expansion, but new research may upend years of cosmological beliefs with a shocking claim made by ...

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...

Mortality in the United States, 2023 CDC. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2003–2023 Sam Walters is a journalist covering archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution for Discover, ...