Scientists found that a fungus called Escovopsis living in ant nests has a long and surprising history. New research shows a ...

If it were to melt completely, the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough ice to raise the global sea levels by 4 ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

On a cold winter afternoon, as the archaeological work at a well-preserved ancient city site in Longyao county, Xingtai, in ...

A fascinating study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, has shed light on a mysterious chapter in our Solar System’s ...

A stunning new discovery suggests sponges, and animals, existed 100 million years earlier than we ever imagined.

Ancient Mars once teemed with flowing rivers, forming vast drainage systems. A new study has mapped these large basins, ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be alien technology sent to seed life on Earth, ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...