Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

This stunning image dubbed 'Cosmic Owl' captures a remarkable moment in deep space, billions of light years away.

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals the discovery of the most distant and most pristine fossil galaxy ever found, KiDS J0842+0059, located about 3 ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

The lush, tropical regions of Central and South America have long dazzled scientists with their plant diversity. These ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Johns Hopkins APL and Blue Canyon Technologies have collaborated on agile, reliable space solutions for government sponsors, ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

The Earth, the solar system, and the entire Milky Way are stranded near the centre of a giant, mysterious hole where the ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

If you're an animal enthusiast, you probably know that the vast majority of animals prefer not to spend their lives in motion ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...