A tiny predator that lived 165 million years ago could hold surprising clues to the evolution of mammals. Discover how this unusual Jurassic creature is changing what scientists know about our past. A ...

Why Orangutan mothers go the extra mile to find playmates for their young, travelling from their own core area into others ...

Larger than the domes of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London: it stands in a small spa town.

A remarkably preserved elephant tooth is unlocking secrets of prehistoric life, revealing how ancient ecosystems in northern Israel supported giant elephants and early humans nearly 700,000 years ago.

NASA has opened applications for volunteers. The goal isn't to study Mars, but to understand how the human body and mind ...

Tropical Storm Isaias could rapidly strengthen into a hurricane before bringing wind, storm surge and heavy rain to the Gulf ...

Discovered in 2008 with ESO's Very Large Telescope, Beta Pictoris b is a young gas giant with an estimated mass between 9 and ...

Astronomers detected radio waves which allowed scientists to directly estimate the magnetic field of a gaseous exoplanet.

The species found in South America is facing the effects of warming oceans, food shortages and other environmental factors.

The photo vantage point is in the shadow of 18,000-foot Mount Sharp, which Curiosity has been ascending for over ten years.

The Hubble Space Telescope has observed a strange out of sync galaxy whose core is rotating in an unexpected direction, ...

A new study published in the journal Nature by the University of Exeter and the University of Essex has revealed the first ...