For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Water discoveries in space happen all the time. But this one’s actually a big deal, and not just because some scientists got excited (though they absolutely did). NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ...

Scientists analyzing samples from asteroid Bennu have discovered sugars, mysterious space polymers, and dust from exploded ...

Timothy Nash, one of the passengers on the flight, had partnered with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa to bring a fossilized Australopithecus sediba clavicle (estimated to be up to ...

Was Mars a dry and cold planet billions of years ago like we see today, or was it warmer, wetter, and possibly having the conditions for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in ...

A mysterious layer of space dust that coated Earth millions of years ago could be shrapnel from asteroids that smashed into the moon, according to a new analysis of soil from below the sea floor. In ...

Virgin Galactic has sparked controversy after transporting the fossils of two ancient humans into space. The fossils of the two extinct hominin species were under the custodianship of the University ...