Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

In the 1970s, author Erich von Däniken was a household name, not only in his native Switzerland, but also in the U.S. and ...

Australia's Finke River, an ephemeral waterway in the Northern Territory, is considered one of the world's oldest, with a ...

More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

Archaeologists working near Yulin in Shaanxi Province have recorded 573 ancient stone-walled fortress settlements. The Yulin ...

In exploring Earth's ancient past, researchers delve into the bedrock of the Makhonjwa Mountains in South Africa, uncovering ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

New research reveals the Moon may have been silently collecting Earth’s atmosphere for billions of years. Scientists now ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ever appeared in stone.