To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, NASA released a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Rare fossils from Illinois are challenging one of evolution's oldest assumptions and revealing an unexpected path taken by ...

The Egyptian Government revealed some exciting discoveries have been made after 18 tombs were uncovered. These discoveries ...

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence of what could be a new ancient stone or timber circle buried underneath a Scottish ...

Antarctica's ice sheet formed millions of years before the Arctic froze over, at a time when Earth was around 50°C (90°F) ...

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

Narrow, worn stairs beneath the 11th-century Pembroke Castle in Wales lead into a shadowy cavern where early humans once ...

A new trail on Scotland's east coast takes travellers into Earth's ancient past, where scientists proved the planet was ...