Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

A massive asteroid, spanning more than two miles across, has just made its closest approach to Earth in decades - but its ...

New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. A research team including ... researchers understand how gold deposits are formed. Gold is a surprisingly common metal (it is ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, ...

The sun recently hurled two coronal mass ejections toward Earth. The first is expected to reach us on Tuesday sparking aurora ...

A visible arc created by gravitational lensing and the bending of light beyond Abell 370 was ... from a distant galaxy or ...

A research team including a University of Michigan scientist has discovered a new gold-sulfur complex that helps researchers understand how gold deposits are formed ... in Earth's mantle and ...