Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that's 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, rocky meteorite that struck our planet half a century ago. Some of these ...

The Murcia tracksites confirm that straight-tusked elephants, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, crossed Spain’s southeastern coastal ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

New research shows potatoes evolved from tomatoes through ancient plant mixing that created underground tubers.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that a newly identified niobium-rich deposit in central Australia formed during the early breakup of an ancient supercontinent.

At Il-Ħaġar Museum in Victoria, Gozo, artist Victor Agius presents Earth, Light and Silence, an exhibition that revisits the Nativity not as a nostalgic biblical subject but as a living ...

The delicate balance between the "Big Three" and the rest of the pantheon shows why some names strike more fear into the ...

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Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...