A massive flood called the Zanclean megaflood ended the Messinian salinity crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, according to new research led by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research ...

Homo erectus, an early member of the genus Homo, successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa than previously thought, according to new research. Debate has long ...

The new isopod species has been named Bathynomus vaderi after the most famous Sith Lord in the Star Wars movie series, Darth Vader, whose helmet resembles the marine animal’s head. The ...

A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Australian National University, has discovered an ‘unexpected’ accumulation of ...

Launched on December 19, 2013, the fuel tank of ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia is now approaching empty, but this is far from the end of the mission. Technology tests are scheduled for the weeks ...

Paleoanthropologists from the University of Vienna and Harvard University have analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from Eurasian archaeological sites dating between 6400-2000 BCE. They’ve ...

The source of the newly-detected fast radio burst, FRB 20240209A, is in the distant outskirts of an ancient elliptical galaxy, which is located 2 billion light-years from Earth and has a mass of more ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use the auricular muscles, which helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, ...

A type Ia supernova event called SN 2022abvt was discovered two years ago in the spiral galaxy LEDA 132905. LEDA 132905 resides over 400 million light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor. “The ...

Paleontologists from the United States and Australia have discovered and described a new, nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai, a foot-propelled diver bird species that lived in Antarctica during the ...

One of these exoplanets, HD 20794d, is likely to be a rocky planet in the habitable zone of its parent star, the G-dwarf HD 20794. “HD 20794, around which HD 20794d orbits, is not an ordinary star,” ...