For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...

While some of these alliances faded into obscurity almost immediately, others helped define and symbolize the comic book ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier than believed.

The earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints.

Debuting in Young Avengers #1, this teenage superhero team quickly became one of the most important Marvel superhero teams ...

The early universe sounds terrifying.