Life on Earth may not have started here at all. A scientist says alien intervention is unlikely but still possible, reshaping the debate on our true origins.

Science loves a good underdog story. Throughout history, brilliant minds have proposed ideas so outlandish, so contrary to accepted wisdom, that the scientific establishment laughed them off as lunacy ...

Scientific research is up-ending age-old gender stereotypes about empathy – and revealing new ways of thinking about ...

From the heliocentric theory to rocket science, these visionaries challenged conventions and reshaped the future.

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make ...

A video is spreading on social media with claims that Elon Musk's Starlink internet service enabled a livestreamer to show ...

Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern Arkansas, a series of geological sites known as the Fayetteville Shale has ...

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth's ...

The developer of the embattled Manhattan condo tower 432 Park Avenue has made a deal to sell a full-floor spread that once belonged to its partner on the project, the legendary New York property ...

New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic. Reading time 3 minutes An apocalyptic serial killer of sea ...

The Philippines has protested China's attacks against Filipino government officials, who have criticized Beijing's aggressive actions in the disputed South China Sea. In a statement issued Monday by ...

Disturbing photos released in the Epstein files appear to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor crouching on all fours over a female lying on the floor. In the three photographs, a man believed to be Andrew ...