Thousands of years later, each lunar year is still said to possess certain characteristics of its animal namesake, and those ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao officially greeted the public for the first time at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C.

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

“You leave in the late afternoon, evening, and you arrive early in the day,” Bob van der Linden, curator of air ...

Nestled in the southwest corner of the Iowa’s portion of the unglaciated Driftless Area, the countryside around Oelwein is ...

Although Sgr A* belches out the occasional flare, this is the first time we've captured it in mid-infrared – one of the missing pieces of the puzzle of the black ... says astrophysicist Joseph Michail ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...