The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take ...

NASA has finished a crucial step toward getting its Artemis II moon mission off the ground, and is now targeting early April ...

A spacecraft could plunge into Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Tuesday. While most of the probe will likely burn up during reentry, a few components are expected to survive.

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

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Every single curling stone in the Winter Olympics is crafted from a special granite found only on Ailsa Craig, a small ...