Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

It's been seven years since Elon Musk sent a Tesla Roadster into space, so why did he do it and where is it now?

Around 20 years ago, a team of paleontologists identified Vegavis iaai for the first time, citing a fossil from Antarctica, around 68 million years to 66 million years old. At the time of the ...

The asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs was estimated to be about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter and marked the last known large ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth’s land ecosystems with a multitude of forms ... known from fragmentary fossils perhaps dating ...

In this newspaper last week astronomer Martin George from the Ulverstone Planetarium reported on the asteroid called 2024 YR4 ...

Scientists who just months ago ... past 20 years in the shape of the inner core. Signs of the core’s deformation appeared in waves from earthquakes that were strong enough to reach Earth ...