Reconstruction of a late Maastrichtian (~66 million years ago) palaeoenvironment in North America, where a floodplain is roamed by dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex, Edmontosaurus annectens and ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism. There has been ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

More news about our planet: Sign up for USA TODAY's Climate Point newsletter. The exoplanet known as K2-18b was first discovered in 2015 more than 120 light-years from Earth during NASA's planet ...

Astronomers have detected potential signs of life on planet K2-18b, located 700 trillion miles away, using the James Webb Space Telescope. The team discovered chemical traces of dimethyl sulphide ...

The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS - involved in Webb’s observations of the planet named K2-18 b are generated on Earth by living organisms, primarily ...

Fossilized footprints on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have revealed that a variety of dinosaurs once stalked the island's prehistoric landscape. New research, published April 2 in the journal PLOS ...

The finding could also help scientists identify more areas where this process is happening as well as provide a better understanding of earthquakes and how our planet operates, she added.

Patrick began fossil hunting as a teen; on one of their first dates, he and Annie went searching for dinosaur eggs. Once simmering, the debate over who gets to hunt for dinosaur fossils has become ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism. There has been ...

Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a ...