Beneath the rolling hills of West Java, Indonesia, lies a site that could challenge the very timeline of human civilization.

This week, see what makes loggerhead sea turtles “dance,” track a cosmic “ghost particle,” uncover an ancient basilica, and more.

Loggerhead turtles, known for their extensive migrations across the oceans, have been shown to use Earth’s magnetic fields ...

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, in operation for a few months now, uncovered light coming from a ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...