Selected by Veronica Buckley, the author of “Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe’s First Family.” ...

How can we measure time more than 500 million years into the past? A study recently published in Nature Communications by ...

A remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces ...

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has ...

The first sea organisms suddenly vanished 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction - The ...

In the early hours of 8 March 2014, flight MH370 took off like any other, but it never landed, and its disappearance shocked ...

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot ...

New 3D map of the early universe from HETDEX reveals faint hydrogen light linking galaxies 9 to 11 billion years ago.

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from ...

All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected ...

When we look at the solid ground beneath our feet, it's easy to assume Earth has always been this way. But our planet tells a story so extraordinary, so ...