Sir Walter Raleigh, an English adventurer, writer and explorer of the Americas, founded a colony in North Carolina in 1587 that later disappeared. Archaeologists hope to uncover new clues about what happened.Hulton Archive | Getty Images It's one of the nation's great mysteries: The first permanent colony of English settlers ...

Two views of the Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation," both taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The left shows the pillars in visible light; the right image was taken in infrared light.NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team In December, NASA is scheduled to launch the huge $10 billion James ...

View from above (dorsal view) of the new soldier fly named after RuPaul, Opaluma rupaul.CSIRO Australia RuPaul has a new accomplishment to add to his resume: having a (fabulous) insect named after him. Researchers with CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, announced that a soldier fly known for its bright, shimmering ...

An artist's impression of a woolly mammoth in a snow-covered environment.Leonello Calvetti/Stocktrek Images | Getty Images/Stocktrek Images Updated September 15, 2021 at 6:24 AM ET Using recovered DNA to "genetically resurrect" an extinct species — the central idea behind the Jurassic Park films — may be moving closer to reality ...

Climate activists in Quezon City, Philippines, light candles and hold LED-illuminated banners in December of last year to commemorates five years since the Paris Agreement and to call for an end to the killing of environmental defenders.Aileen Dimatatac | Majority World/Universal Images via Getty The daughter of Fikile Ntshangase says ...

Homes that were sold by the Department of Housing and Urban Development between January 2017 and August 2020 are in federally designated flood zones at almost 75 times the rate of all homes sold nationwide in that period. New Jersey is one hot spot. Here, flooding from Tropical Storm Henri ...

Texas surfer Jacob Williams catches big air in Waco, Texas, where artificial waves are generated by compressed air and a computer.Rob Henson | BSR Surf Resort Nearly 200 miles from the nearest ocean, nine surfers are bobbing beneath the Texas sun in what looks like a tropical lagoon. Then a ...

Taco Bell wants customers to collect its sauce packets so they can be turned into other products rather than sent to the landfill.Joshua Blanchard | Getty Images for Taco Bell A sauce packet from a fast-food restaurant might seem like the ultimate throwaway item. But Taco Bell is telling its ...

Pope Francis, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Portal Welby and Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, shown at a meeting of prayer in the Basilica of St. Francis in 2016, are asking for climate action.Vatican pool photo | Getty Images The leaders of three prominent Christian denominations have issued an ...

In this photo taken by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and provided by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, the International Space Station is seen from the Nauka module on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021.Oleg Novitsky | AP MOSCOW — Smoke alarms went off at the Russian segment of the International Space Station ...