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.

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

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A University of Sydney Martian soil map covering 92% of the planet's surface ranks several thousand prime future Mars greenhouse locations.

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 ...

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

A new phenomenon discovered in plasma could have a major effect on the turbulence driving volatile and dangerous space ...

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