Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

But her evolutionary stature and cross-cultural appeal are huge. Today, half a century after the discovery of her partial skeleton, people everywhere know Lucy. Discovering Lucy ushered in a new way ...

In 1833, hundreds of thousands of shooting stars inspired songs, prophecies and a crowdsourced research paper on the origins ...

Yale physicist Eduardo H. da Silva Neto led an experiment that supports the existence of a new type of superconductor.

An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense maelstrom of the early universe has puzzled physicists for decades.

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Water and the bad smelling molecule hydrogen sulfide do not seem to have a lot in common at first sight. However, when ...