For hundreds of years, Africa has been the location of groundbreaking discoveries that have shaped researchers’ understanding of the Earth’s history. In the Sahara Desert, scientists uncovered ...

There could be life as we know it, or rather as we don't know it, forming on Saturn's largest moon. Reading time 3 minutes On December 25, 2004, the Huygens probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace. Yet the age-old question remains unanswered: are we ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...