Unearth a fascinating prehistoric bug, a living fossil that offers a glimpse into Earth's ancient past.

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 ...

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

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

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

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NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

We are cavemen piloting a spaceship, driven by ancient fears in a world of technology. One resolution could change everything ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Not all great adventures come with sprawling landscapes and endless borders. Some of the most fascinating places on Earth fit ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.