An ancient site in Turkey has just rewritten the history of timekeeping. New findings suggest that a 12,000-year-old monument could be the key to humanity's first solar calendar.

Three intertwined time directions may underpin everything, turning space into mere “paint on the canvas” and pushing physics toward a long-sought theory of everything.

Researchers discovered two previously unknown species of parasitic fungi inside ancient amber fossils.

"We are given rules by our own institutions about what we can and cannot say."

California ground squirrels surprise scientists with their newly discovered taste for mammalian flesh.

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar origins.

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving multiple flybys of asteroid Apophis with a swarm of cubesats when the rocky body approaches Earth in 2029.

For over 50 years, it’s been the scientifically accepted theory describing the origin of the Universe. It’s time we all learned its truths.

A fast radio burst detected last year has been traced to a deeply unusual source.

I witnessed some utterly insane, idiotic, and foolish nonsense at NASA today - some in full view - a lot of it behind the scenes.

Mike Witt, NASA’s Senior Agency Information Security Officer

The 40,000-year-old boomerang was made with an astonishing level of skill and ingenuity, say scientists.

These exercises can be practiced at home with zero equipment—and they just might help you live longer.

Liftoff occurred at 3:54 p.m. EDT on Wednesday (June 25).

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years.

I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned about their future. The disappearance of the western Indian Ocean’s largest reef fishes is not just an ecological tragedy, it is a cri…

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so meteorites that come from the moon and Mars. This is probably a result of asteroids hitting their surfaces and ejecting material toward our p…

The Exploration Company lost contact with its Mission Possible vehicle a few minutes before touchdown in the ocean.

He wouldn't do that on land.

An almost universal phenomenon in humans is the use of child-directed speech, where caregivers communicate with children, often involving a particular speech style also termed "baby talk." Numerous studies have linked the amount of child-directed speech child…

A stunning amber fossil discovery reveals ancient "zombie fungi" that controlled insects' behavior millions of years ago.

John R. Casani, a longtime Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, project manager and researcher, died at the age of 92 last week.  Casani served a central role in many of NASA’s historic deep space missions, the space agency said in a statement.   Born in Phila…

Images have revealed the last thing a NASA spacecraft saw before plunging into Saturn's atmosphere

A newly discovered, agile herbivore from the Late Jurassic period offers a fresh glimpse into the hidden world of small dinosaurs that thrived alongside giants.

How did tiny night lizards survive the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs?