Archaeologists discovered a trove of rare silver coins on a small, remote island in the Mediterranean, Sicilian officials announced last week.

These selections from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest images capture this South American paradise ...

Quartz, which can generate electricity, attracts large chunks of gold when stressed and squeezed by seismic shaking, according to a new study ...

From Alaska to Peru and the Himalayas, glacial lakes are suddenly breaking free and causing deaths and millions of dollars in damages ...

A series of dolphin attacks in Wakasa Bay is believed to be the doing of a lone male bottlenose dolphin looking for friends ...

An auctioneer discovered "Portrait of a Girl," which just sold for $1.4 million, during a standard "house call" to an estate ...

A new study finds that when bats in U.S. counties were decimated by the deadly white-nose syndrome, human deaths followed ...

Finished in 315 C.E., the Arch of Constantine is one of Rome’s three surviving ancient triumphal arches, each erected to ...

After the country's hottest June and July on record, a shrinking artificial lake has uncovered ruins of a school and other ...

On October 15, 1914, a British warship called the HMS Hawke was sailing off the coast of Scotland when it was hit by a German ...

A newly digitized set of records reveal the plight and bravery of enslaved people in the North ...

Now, new research has dug up an even more calamitous collision in our solar system’s distant past: An asteroid 20 times the ...