Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

Based on our "Diagnostic Dilemma" series, this quiz tests your medical know-how.

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple times in a remote Samoan rainforest.

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them.

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...

"Further follow-up at 3 and 6 months showed complete resolution of hypertension and a complete recovery from the stroke with ...

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.

For the first time, scientists have created detailed, 2D maps of the sun's outermost atmosphere. This feat was accomplished ...

These Anglo-Saxon accessories were recovered from the side of a hill in England and may be from a hoard, a ritual deposit or ...