Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

A stray comet from another star is swinging past Earth. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...