Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30% ...

Scientists say their Stomata In-Sight tool can observe plants "breathe," which could be used to bioengineer crops that ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of ...

Because the moon has less gravity than Earth does, time passes slightly differently there. This effect was first predicted by ...

Engineers from MIT say that stacking circuit components on top of each other could be the answer to creating more ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Little red dots were first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) shortly after the spacecraft began collecting ...