Meteorite hunters believe they have found several fragments of the fireball meteor that exploded over Ohio. Here's how ...

Blathnaid is a rare Irish baby girl name meaning 'flower' or 'blossom', with ancient Celtic roots and Irish mythology behind it.

Multiple spacecraft and rovers have now detected what appears to be an extensive network of ancient river channels hidden beneath the Martian surface, buried under layers of lava and sediment that ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of hu ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

The oldest known joke in known human history is not "Why did the chicken cross the road?" In fact, it's a fart joke that can be traced all the way back to ...

Fossils found in Niger belong to a newly identified Spinosaurus species that had a dramatic skull crest and likely hunted fish by wading, researchers reported.

Simultaneously, there is widely shared anger at the upsurge of attacks targeting their communities, and deep divisions within those communities over whether to support or oppose various policies and ...