A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

Discover the oldest animals in the world, from centenarian tortoises to a whale born before the Titanic sank. Learn about the ...

The vast majority of what we know about the Tower of London comes from famous legends and stories. Alfred Hawkins, Curator of ...

A specimen discovered in Mongolia is the most complete fossil yet found of a pachycephalosaur, a dinosaur believed to be ...

Oxford University’s James A. Maynard was awarded the prestigious Carrier Medal for his groundbreaking work in number theory.

Marty Rowland is no longer a special editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology after he published a paper ...

A "teenaged" pachycephalosaur from Mongolia's Gobi Desert may provide answers to lingering questions around the dinosaur ...

For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart, ...

For more than six centuries, a mysterious cloth known as the Shroud of Turin has stirred fascination, devotion, and heated ...

The historian Kyle Harper on the history of plagues, the rise of anti-vaccination politics, and why measles is back in ...

Archeologists have unearthed what they say may be the oldest known mummies in the world, dating back to around 12,000 years ago. According to a study published on Monday in the journal Proceedings of ...