Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

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A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Archaeologists say they have found the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with ...

Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...

A father-daughter duo has decoded an alien-like signal beamed from a spacecraft in 2023. Now, citizen scientists are trying ...

The Northern Taurid meteor shower is expected to peak Monday night into Tuesday. Here’s what to look for and how to see it.

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, ...

An emperor penguin surprised locals when it appeared on a beach in Australia after making an epic journey of thousands of ...

Monkeys will not be able to type the complete works of William Shakespeare, or even a short book, before the death of the ...

A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...