Europa’s subsurface ocean has long topped astrobiologists’ wish lists as a place to search for life beyond Earth.

Paleontologists in India have unearthed a partial skeleton of a diminutive, previously unknown neosauropod dinosaur from the ...

A new review of previous studies in the journal Appetite undercuts the popular belief that water fills you up at the table.

New 3D computer simulations from ETH Zurich show that young rift flanks on Venus stay tall and steep, while older ones ...

A new genus and species of cryptobranchid salamander that lived in lakes in Japan about 3.5 million years ago has been ...

Planetary researchers have found the first evidence that bursts of energetic particles from the Sun could warm the lower ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest ...

Named Beta Pictoris d, the newly-discovered world is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b -- the first planet discovered ...

Liopleurodon ferox is a short-necked marine reptile that patrolled the seas of what is now England and France some 163 ...

Paleontologists at the University of New South Wales have described a new genus and species of dasyurid marsupial from the Early Miocene of Australia, offering the first solid evidence that the family ...

Thousands of fossilized bones from a Cretaceous-period bonebed in Wyoming, the United States, offer rare physical evidence ...