Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

Astronomers studying the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS say it could be a 12‑billion‑year‑old relic formed in near‑absolute‑zero ...

An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar System and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, astronomers said Monday ...

If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.

The Northern Neck region where Fossil Beach is located remains one of Virginia’s quieter areas, which is excellent news for ...

New Mexico's carved hoodoos, expansive badlands, and rising mesas feel like they belong in another world, far away from the ...

At first, they looked like muddy chunks of ancient shell. But these 20-million-year-old fossil oysters had been slowly replaced with agate over time, creating hidden patterns inside the stone. When ...

If someone told you that you could walk along a Virginia beach and pick up shark teeth from creatures that lived 15 million years ago, you’d probably assume they’d been out in the sun too long. Yet ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

Two rovers have had big breaks over the past few years in the case of whether Mars ever hosted life. Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that ...