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

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

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 ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Differences in the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon will make July 9, July 22 and August 5 unusually short.

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in ...