He recently unveiled a robot named “Rocky” that seems unbeatable when it comes to the game of rock, paper, scissors. Notably, ...

Welcome to the Land of Oz? That's what some scientists were left wondering when they discovered what appeared to be a yellow ...

Fancy telescopes and massive particle accelerators aren’t the only tools that can be used to detect dark matter. Researchers ...

Those first detailed images showed Comet 67P to be nothing like the potato-shaped rock the scientists had long expected.

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

Analyzing billion-year-old rocks, researchers at Virginia Tech hope to find traces of dark matter. The idea was first ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

A Martian rock that could hold the signs of life is exciting scientists like Katie Stack Morgan, a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the deputy project scientist of the Mars ...

Parrotfish are a group of 90-odd species found in coral reefs, seagrass beds, and rocky areas around the world, with the ...

The rocks indicate an ancient, iron-rich environment, but the rover wasn't able study details of the rock's composition.

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.