Researchers believe a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded above Earth almost 13,000 years ago may have had a role in the disappearance of mammoths, mastodons, and most other megafauna ...

Researchers studied samples returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2020. The spacecraft visited the near-Earth asteroid between 2018 and 2019.

Unveiling the mysteries of early civilization, Mesopotamian clay provides valuable insights into the origins of chemistry.

After analyzing a ceramic lamp unearthed from a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) tomb in North ­China's Shanxi Province, researchers ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

Learn about the comet impact hypothesis that may explain why North America lost most of its megafauna along with the Clovis ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over Earth almost ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...