Scientists have found a way to reliably tell the difference between a natural earthquake and an underground nuclear explosion.
Astronomers have identified a potentially habitable extrasolar planet situated around 137 light-years away.
Assistant Professor Peter Crockford takes a look at how much life has inhabited this planet since the first cell appeared.
Known as Gigantopithecus blacki, this enormous primate was the largest of its kind ever to walk the Earth.
Over 500 million years ago, these huge predatory worms prowled the Cambrian seas.
Scientists have developed a new modeling tool to help simulate the effects of a nuclear device on a large asteroid.
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient fortress built by hunter-gatherers in Siberia's Lower Ob' region.
Millions of years ago, the Earth was home to some truly titanic insects including one particularly enormous millipede.
The particle is over one million times more energetic than anything generated by the Large Hadron Collider.
This enigmatic archaeological site in Indonesia has the potential to be the oldest monolithic structure on Earth.
The findings could not only solve the mystery of the Moon's formation, but also the mystery of two large subsurface 'blobs'.
A relative of today's wombats, the Diprotodon was absolutely massive - standing 1.7 meters tall and weighing 3 tons.
Sagan and his colleagues used instruments aboard the Galileo spacecraft to conduct a very important control experiment.
A 'monster' quake picked up on Mars suggests that the Red Planet is far from seismically inactive.
The remarkable sealed tomb, which is believed to date back 2,000 years, was found in Giugliano.
Toby Ord's 2020 book painted a grim picture of humanity's chances this century, but just how accurate is his prediction ?
The creature, whatever it is, has sparked some heated debate online, with many dismissing the image as a hoax.
The spacecraft touched down in the Utah desert after a seven-year journey to and from the asteroid Bennu.
The discovery marks the oldest known evidence of wood logs being crafted and joined together to create a structure.
Fox Mulder himself has offered up a rather unconventional explanation for why aliens might visit the Earth.