Some of us remember the first Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 1970. We pulled old bedsprings and tires out of local rivers and urged a ban on phosphates that fueled weed growth in streams and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...

Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired ...

In the heart of San Francisco, California, there’s a place where the curious and the quirky collide, where the past meets the ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

"The fact that the latest robust Copernicus data reveals the January just gone was the hottest on record, despite an emerging La Niña, which typically has a cooling effect, is both astonishing and, ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.