Researchers with the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of sunflower endemic to the harsh, rocky ...

A rare find was made by scientists in the Gulf of Aqaba, where the Bible says Moses parted the Red Sea to lead the slaves ...

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Leucippus' ancient atomic theory bears striking parallels to the modern Big Bang model showcasing his visionary perspective on cosmic origins ...

Chances an asteroid may hit Earth in 2032 have again risen, though the risk remains tiny, astronomers say. Here's what to ...

On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...

Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating and sometimes ...

In 1908, a 30-meter-wide (98-foot-wide) asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian forest of Russia, according to the Planetary Society. The event leveled trees and destroyed ...