A new study suggests that simple molecules on early Earth may have worked together to create more stable, cell-like ...

Fragmentary bones from Brazil reveal a new Triassic reptile close to the lineage that preceded dinosaurs and crocodiles.

Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and order, Yu Deng first had to achieve equilibrium ...

Andy Burnham officially became Britain’s new prime minister Monday, marking the country’s seventh leader in a decade.

Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The sweet discovery shows for the first time that compoun ...

If the researchers' hypothesis is correct, the fossil represents the earliest known instance of an injury caused by something sharp. Reading time 3 minutes Even today, a stab to the face is considered ...

(CNN) — If you happen to be right-handed, you may be able to trace the origins of that trait to a wormlike animal that lived about 550 million years ago and had a tendency to bend to the right.

Scientists discovered a previously hidden ecosystem - lagoons in Argentina's Puna de Atacama harbors microbial communities, known as stromatolites, that could be good examples of the earlier form of ...

In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth’s oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic rocks, close to 3.5 billion years old, cut ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil discovery is challenging how scientists understand life on land, revealing towering structures known as Prototaxites that once rose up to 8 meters high long before trees ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...