Elana Glowatz

Pottery from ancient Italy contains residue of 5,000-year-old wine, making it one of the oldest samples of wine ever found.

One of the closest photos ever taken of a star revealed something weird in its atmosphere and scientists are trying to solve the mystery.

Astronomers were surprised to find X-rays coming out of a supernova, and it is shaking up their idea of how certain star explosions happen.

This extinct little dolphin didn’t have any teeth, but it had whiskers and big lips for sucking up fish from the ocean floor.

Two white dwarf stars might crash into each other and merge — if they don’t blow up first.

Prittlewell Priory’s 800-year-old stone coffin was damaged when visitors tried to take a cheeky photo.

A koala born at the Australia Zoo this year has white fur, making it a rare kind of joey.

The mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs included so much soot from global fires that Earth was plunged into darkness for years.

People on airplanes and astronauts aboard the ISS get an extra special view of total solar eclipses.

Eclipse selfies, and selfies with the sun in general, are not wise decisions. Here's why.

During the total solar eclipse that is sweeping through the United States today, NASA’s moon camera will turn toward Earth.

Keep your fingers crossed that clouds won’t block your view of the moon blocking the sun during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21.

This little star might have survived a supernova explosion, but the blast sent it flying through the Milky Way galaxy.

Doctors might be able to treat drug-resistant bacteria by using their own signals against them.

What makes a supermassive black hole want to eat everything around it? Scientists try to solve mystery at the center of jellyfish-shaped galaxies.

Clouds move in strange ways on brown dwarfs, the things in space that are halfway between a star and a planet.

A giant sloth fell into a pit about 12,000 years ago and scientists have found its huge bones.

When you’re watching the total solar eclipse on August 21, turn on this playlist to set the mood.

Scientists have found that being raised by gay or straight parents doesn’t change a child’s gender identity.

A dinosaur with a bizarre mix of features at first confused paleontologists, but it may actually show them how different groups of dinos evolved.

A prehistoric jawbone is showing scientists how humans evolved, but the fossil comes from what might be an unexpected marine animal.

NASA is sending a nanosatellite to Venus because that planet’s atmosphere is playing with light in a mysterious way and they want to figure out what’s going on.

An ancient Roman villa unearthed in Sicily tells archaeologists more about the Roman Empire.

Scientists are learning more about how the Tyrannosaurus rex evolved by doing a deep scan of another tyrannosaur’s skull.

A jumping spider eats frogs and lizards that are longer and heavier than it is, a new study found.

Scientists have identified almost 100 previously unknown volcanoes under the ice in Antarctica.

Scientists calculated the odds that a 1,000-foot asteroid will strike Earth in the next century.

Here’s what you can expect to see during the 2017 total solar eclipse.

If Earth and humans are completely typical in the universe, then all of the intelligent aliens may have already gone extinct.