The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute team first spotted the "mystery mollusc" in 2000, about 8,500 feet below the ...

A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur species with a very distinctive feature, a sail-like structure running down ...

SAN ANTONIO – A previously unknown tiny moon has been discovered orbiting Uranus. A team led by Southwest Research ...

Scientists found a “long”-limbed creature with a “wheat-colored tongue” in a river valley of China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Liu, Wu, Zhang, Yang, Liu, Chen, Chang, Xie ...

Scientists have long been fascinated by Mars, studying the rocks and minerals on its surface, and they might have learned ...

In the mountains of eastern China, a 1-foot-long predator with a “slightly compressed” body moved through the bushes. Its “enlarged” yellow eyes scanned its surroundings, but it wasn’t the only one ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...

Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human ancestors ...

Archaeologists believe survivors were joined by others looking for a place to settle and hoping to find valuable items left ...