New DNA analysis of 20000-year-old crane bones has concluded that it is not an extinct species after all, solving a 150-year-old mystery.

A never-before-recognized theoretical phenomenon hidden in Einstein's gravity work may help researchers predict the behavior ...

The SETI Institute and Saudi Arabia’s Royal Commission for AlUla have activated the first two LaserSETI stations in Asia.

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A 1,500-year-old clay figure excavated in Japan offers new insight into the religious life of the Kofun period, when Buddhism ...

By growing microorganisms in the lab, scientists have uncovered new support for the prospect that Saturn's moon Enceladus ...

The origin of life on our planet may not be connected to comets after all, as new research questions this long-standing theory about how chemical precursors of life could have found their way to Earth ...

What would happen if an asteroid struck the Earth? We spoke with a NASA planetary scientist who is working to find out.

Climate change has erased two millennia of progress toward a new global ice age, potentially validating controversial claims ...

Recent research reveals how psilocybin can help reestablish connections in the brain, offering new possibilities for treating depression.

Scientists reconstruct a 164-foot lake tsunami and reveal how human activity may increase the danger to communities near ...

A new analysis of a mysterious skeleton discovered in a Westminster Abbey sarcophagus in the 1800s has identified two likely ...