NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur. A newfound fossil tail from this giant predator stretches our understanding of how—and where—dinosaurs lived.

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the sample will be preserved for future generations of humanity, the best-case ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...

David S. Goyer celebrated the 20th anniversary of “Batman Begins” on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, where he revealed ...

A closer look at lion evolution offers hope for saving the big cats. For the first time, scientists sequenced the genomes of 20 individual lions, including extinct cave lions, revealing insights ...