Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

Several other threatened programs may now have a better chance of staying funded, but the move indefinitely postpones our ...

Although the results aren't conclusive, the technique used to gather the DNA represents a significant milestone in the study ...

Altogether, they reconstructed 11 ancient herpesvirus genomes. The oldest came from a young girl found in southern Italy who ...

A study from the University of Michigan has identified the countries with the highest levels of narcissism. As well as ...

P rehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Africa applied deadly poisons to their stone arrows 60,000 years ago. Amazingly, the ...

Sanctuary Manager Nick Stock spotted an isolated rocky outcrop from a helicopter overhead, and on a hunch laid down a single ...

First, let’s be clear: sometimes, a person can wake themselves up by snoring. “Some snorers are awakened by their loud ...

“Supernova explosions and the elements they hurl into space are the lifeblood of new stars and planets,” said Brian Williams of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and principal ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

“Horned dinosaurs like Triceratops are some of the most iconic dinosaurs, but most of them are from North America, and now we ...

“What we have is a very good candidate for the ancestor of what's going to be our own species in Africa,” says Hublin. In ...