What would happen if an asteroid struck the Earth? We spoke with a NASA planetary scientist who is working to find out.

The violent lives of Neanderthals are on display in 75,000-year-old remains showing a fatal spear wound alongside evidence of healed trauma.

White dwarfs glow in a rainbow of colors, one recorded for the first time in new research showing how these stars can defy ...

Scientists are exploring light in entirely new ways with the creation of a “light-powered brain,” capable of recognizing ...

New analysis of a 13,800-year-old Alaskan Beringia site revealed clues connecting its mysterious inhabitants with Asia and the Americas.

For the first time, scientists have mapped the true shape of a distant exoplanet orbiting a star 1,000 light-years away.

A rare ring found in a sunken Egyptian palace depicts the Lighthouse of Alexandria and hints at who managed the ancient ...

This week, we examine an incident involving an unidentified object detected near Israel's northern border that triggered a ...

Scientists say they are one step closer to reviving the long-extinct dodo, thanks to new advancements in artificial ...

Researchers have identified a microscopic organism with the smallest genome reported for any member of its domain, yet its ...

Voyager Technologies has announced the successful completion of acceptance testing for its Griffin-1 Moon lander mission, clearing the way for the spacecraft and its 10 experimental payloads to meet ...

Scientists have observed a strange quantum property of electrons for the first time, according to recently published research ...