Scientists have uncovered ancient secrets buried deep beneath the surface of the moon, thanks to China’s Chang’e-4 mission.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

At a time of acute crisis, the threat posed by domestic extremists might fall down countries' list of political and security ...

A study reveals that the oldest continental crust on Earth is slowly being broken up by shifting tectonic forces.

On a clear night, the moon you gaze upon looks the same as it looked for the first humans that walked Earth—the same ...

Life’s ultimate origin will never be known, but researchers are probing the possibilities—for Earth and elsewhere.

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

While they branched off from animals more than 1 billion years ago, making them more closely related to us than plants are, there is a large gap in the fossil record. For hundreds of millions of ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

At San Onofre — just yards from the shore break, on a bluff over the blue Pacific, in an active earthquake zone and close to ...

A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted enough greenhouse gases that the ...

On Earth, gold is estimated to be more than four billion years old, with around 216,265 tonnes of gold mined throughout its ...