Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

Complicated births may not have arisen in humans as a trade-off between our need for big brains and pelvises suitable for ...

A fragment of cloth found in a royal tomb in Greece decades ago might be the remains of a tunic once worn by Alexander the ...

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago.

Charles Darwin is famous for proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection, but how much more do you know about the British naturalist?

Pando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats ...

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently ...

The first-ever wooden satellite, called LignoSat, arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo ...

For 188 years, the king cobra has been represented by a single species, Ophiophagus hannah. But this widely distributed ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

On what would've been the astronomer's 90th trip around the sun, here's a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and ...