If you’ve ever wanted to visit another planet without leaving Earth, Fort Rock State Natural Area near Fort Rock, Oregon, is ...

The views from up in the trees showcase the beautiful southern Indiana landscape, with its rolling hills and forests creating ...

For the first time in over a decade, the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore's ice caves are open to the public. The ice caves opened at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 16, according to the National Park ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change in beads, sequins and Lite-Brite colors. The artist Nick Cave at his ...

Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky is home to the world’s longest cave system, with over 426 miles of mapped underground passages. While here, visitors can hike the Cedar Sink Trail and explore an ...

International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,000 years, making it the oldest known cave artwork ever discovered, per a study published Wednesday ...

A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said Wednesday, and sheds light on how humans first migrated to Australia. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed ...

Maxime Aubert receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Google Arts & Culture and The National Geographic Society. Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adhi ...

In an Indonesian cave system known for its prehistoric art, the oldest cave art yet found was hiding in plain sight. In a cave full of paintings that were well studied over the years, a faint hand ...