T Cha is no ordinary young, Sun-like star. It is surrounded by a circumstellar disk, the dense, rotating structure of gas and ...

A McGill University student has made an extraordinary discovery—a 75-million-year-old dragonfly fossil from the late ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

The undisputed centerpiece of any visit to Bayard is Chimney Rock National Historic Site, located just a few miles southeast of town. This natural spire rises dramatically from the surrounding plains, ...

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life through our galaxy. That’s ...

Caltech is a place unlike any other, an Institute that is truly “small but mighty.” Its small size and the expertise of its ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter ...

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Dec. 18 ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

Scientists uncover evidence that all life on Earth traces back to a single ancestor, dating back 4.2 billion years, far ...