Hidden in plain sight for millions of years, a fossil no larger than a fingernail has emerged from the vast Gobi Desert, raising big questions about early life on Earth. What makes it so unusual isn’t immediately obvious.

Ancient footprints have been uncovered in a place where no one expected to find evidence of early humans.

Astronomers have discovered GJ 887, a calm star located just 10.7 light-years away, which could be home to a super-Earth with the potential to support life.

Physicists fired a spinning laser at atoms and witnessed something no experiment had ever captured before.

The news about our technological era has been propagating at the speed of light for roughly 120 years, and reached only 20,000 nearby star…

Aurora chasers, keep your eyes on the skies over the coming days as several incoming coronal mass ejections could spark favorable conditions for widespread northern lights displays.

There's a huge amount of clean energy locked away in ocean waves, if only we could find a way to harness more of it.

NASA’s Earth Observatory captured a rare and colorful phenomenon in Namibia, where temporary lakes in the Etosha Pan turned vibrant after a flooding event.

Chinese scientists have created the first-ever pure hexagonal diamond, a material that's tougher and harder than natural diamond.