One of the most extreme megadroughts has helped fuel wildfires in Los Angeles County and elsewhere in California.

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

Members of a Stone Age culture in Denmark may have ritually buried stones to counter the effects of a volcanic eruption.