Life on Earth may not have started here at all. A scientist says alien intervention is unlikely but still possible, reshaping the debate on our true origins.

The climate record holds some of its best warnings in stone, soil, and leaves. In a new study, scientists from the University of Utah and the Colorado School of Mines looked back to one of Earth’s ...

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

A ‘smiling’ fossil has gone viral after being discovered by a tourist on Holy Island.

The soda straws are another geological oddity that sounds more like a menu item than a cave feature. These thin, hollow tubes ...

So here’s the situation: you live in Virginia, which gives you access to one of the most spectacular underground attractions ...

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At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among ...

The Texas Science and Natural History Museum has unveiled a new upgrade to its basement exhibit, transforming it into an immersive prehistoric world. Flanked by the skeletons of ancient cats and ...

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is ordering federal agencies to begin “identifying and releasing” government ...