You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

But Benoit, who works at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has a different perspective. He says the animal ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a "revenant" grave where a man was buried with large stones on his chest to prevent ...

WASHINGTON — A herd of 40 goats is hard at work gobbling a nearly impenetrable thicket of invasive vines and weeds at the ...

We know Mars once had an active geological past, filled with water, volcanic activity, and dynamic geological changes. Now, ...

The San people acted as paleontologists and used fossil finds as a basis for stories and pictures.

The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

“The small jellyfish will sting, but the fish will build immunity to the toxin,” explained photographer Katherine Lu in a ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

A small asteroid may become a "mini-moon" of Earth's for a couple of months, according to some astronomers. But what makes ...