Cicadas are poised to return at some point in the spring of 2025, potentially bringing billions of bugs to neighborhoods across the eastern United States. The group of cicadas set to appear has been labeled Brood XIV. Emerging once every 17...

Mars—once believed to have looked much like Earth with vast oceans and a thick, life-supporting atmosphere—is now a cold, dusty wasteland. For decades, scientists have puzzled over what truly caused this drastic transformation. But now, NASA’s Curiosity rover might have just uncovered the long-sought-after...