A new analysis of stress, tides and interior forces suggests Jupiter’s icy moon Europa lacks the active seafloor faulting ...

University of Maryland paleontologist Thomas R. Holtz Jr. has spent decades puzzling over how dinosaurs fit into their ancient worlds — and how those worlds differ from our own. His latest research ...

Using camera traps, ornithologists have photographed a previously unknown species of jewel-babbler in the forested karst of the Southern Fold Mountains in Papua New Guinea. The newly-identified ...

Using the WISPR (Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, scientists observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from October 18 to November 5, 2025.

The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition approximately 50,000 to 38,000 years ago is marked by the decline and extinction of Neanderthals, the emergence and expansion of anatomically modern Homo ...

New research led by scientists from the University of Cambridge and Latrobe University challenges the classification of the Little Foot fossil as Australopithecus prometheus. The Little Foot fossil ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a dense assemblage of dugong remains at the site of Al Maszhabiya in the Early Miocene Dam Formation of Qatar. This fossil site shows that the Arabian Gulf has ...

A new genus and species of nimravid from the middle Oligocene epoch has been identified from the fossilized remains found in northern China. The discovery fills a gap in knowledge about the Nimravidae ...

Scientists at King’s College London have identified strong links between theobromine, a common plant compound that comes from cocoa, and measures of epigenetic aging, suggesting that theobromine is ...