The planet, informally dubbed 2M1510, traces out an orbit that carries it far over the poles of two brown dwarfs.

In the Burgess Shale, an exceptional fossil sheds new light on the evolution of early arthropods. Mosura fentoni, with its ...

A fossil once believed to reveal the origin of mollusks turns out to belong to one of Earth’s weirdest ancient creatures ...

An underwater 'city' that predates anything else of its size was discovered in the Gulf of Khambhat, India in 2000.

When researchers put this creature under extreme conditions it rewound the clock of time. This discovery could change how we understand aging and survival.

Archaeologists soon found that the person in the grave had been buried with an axe and a dagger, and that there were “remnants of textile, likely from a garment.” Pictures show archaeologists working ...

A puzzling discovery in NGC 1068 shows a flood of neutrinos but weak gamma rays. Scientists now suspect helium atoms ...

This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling apart. Its blistering host star is so close, the radiation is effectively ...