Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we looking? Projects, chronology, explained ...

Space contains objects far more extreme than our Sun, including neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, white dwarfs, and black ...

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among ...

A newly discovered Spinosaurus species has revealed that the iconic Jurassic Park predator might not have been fully aquatic but more like a “hell heron” that waded through shallower waters. The ...

A ‘smiling’ fossil has gone viral after being discovered by a tourist on Holy Island.

In a recent study, University of Alaska Fairbanks paleontologist Matthew Wooller and his colleagues radiocarbon-dated what they thought were pieces of two mammoth vertebrae, only to get a whale of a ...

That means if aliens were to exist, and they were located some 66 million light-years from Earth, they’d theoretically still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rock Pool Project in Plymouth described the non-native species of sea slug as "alien-like" [Kwan Yu Goh] Non-native and rare ...

A rare ancient document from Sudan confirms the historical existence of King Qashqash, a Nubian ruler once known only from ...

A woman searching for fossils on a recent vacation with her husband got more than she bargained for when she found a weird and terrifying formation resembling a set of human teeth. Christine Clark, 64 ...

Baltimore Fire Department Information Officer Blair Adams on Tuesday said a body of an adult male was found at the scene of a ...