The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started ...

A deadly conflict between rival groups of chimpanzees in Uganda led to comprehensive victory and a bounty of territory and ...

The comet's disintegration is likely the consequence of the sun's powerful gravitational pull, which has caused it to ...

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot ...

This sixth-century pectoral comprises 14 Byzantine gold coins and a gold disc gathered over two centuries.

Methanotrophs, including those that capture methane from the air, seem to outcompete methanogens in dry environments, a new ...

Free radicals are highly reactive molecules that are missing an electron. They get a bad rap, but could they actually have ...

A new architecture replaces traditional bottlenecks with a passive, single-shot light-speed operation that could become the ...

A species of moss survived for 9 months on the outside of the International Space Station, new research reveals — and 80% of ...