Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

The newly discovered asteroid is expected to tag along on the Earth's path around the sun for another 60 years.

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp ...

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...

We know the temperature of Earth ’s inner core is very roughly about 5,000 Kelvin (K) (4,727°C). It was once liquid, but has ...

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a ...

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

A new species of deep-sea octopus with enormous eyes. Opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis, the Carnarvon flapjack octopus, was found in Australia.

NASA has discovered signs of life on Mars in the form of organic carbon, sulfur, rust, and phosphorous in a canyon, and new ...

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