A buried glacier hidden beneath the Canadian Arctic is giving scientists a rare glimpse into Earth’s distant climatic past.

There’s a connection between wave types that scientists once thought were fundamentally different.

The “world’s oldest octopus” was actually a 300-million-year-old fossil impostor hiding its secret in tiny teeth.

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.

From PCR and CRISPR to autophagy and targeted cancer therapies, scientists share the discoveries that shaped their work and ...

The evidence suggests communities in which funerary practices appear to have been structured by age, biological sex, and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In its 4.6-billion-year history, Earth has had some truly catastrophic run-ins with ancient celestial bodies. None rival the cataclysmic collision ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, explaining why ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of small mammal that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, offering fresh clues about ...