BETHEL – A project to preserve Yup'ik language and culture already has put more than 4,000 Southwest Alaska place names on a digital map: fish camps and ancient settlements, sloughs and ponds ...

Perfect for amateur paleontologists, students, and professional scientists alike, The Digital Atlas of Ancient Life is a free app created by scientists at the University of Kansas to help people ...

Humans might not be the first lifeforms to face self-induced climate change. A new model suggests Mars was once habitable enough to support microbes, and they may have wiped themselves out by ...

Organic compounds have been discovered on Mars in recent years. A new study examines the different ways that one type in particular, thiophene, may have formed, and intriguingly one of the most ...

An ancient comet that only returns to the inner solar system once every 80,000 years, illuminated the night sky in the Philippines. Footage shows the long-period comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

Ryan Warner interviews Colorado author Craig Childs about his latest book, "Atlas of a Lost World," on stage at the Avalon Theatre in Grand Junction, July 13, 2018. Colorado author Craig Childs is ...

The digital atlas has received much praise ahead of its launch. The Londonderry Sentinel quoted him, “This is a fantastic way to view early plans and maps of key streets and areas within the ...

NASA's Mars rover, Perseverance, launched Thursday at 7:50 a.m. ET aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... Perseverance, to look for ancient life on Red Planet.

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders.Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. In 1900, sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera discovered ...

In 2010, Ta’n Weji-sqalia’tiek Mi’kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas and Website Project (formerly Pjila’si Mi’kma’ki: Mi’kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas and Website Project) was launched to document ...