Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

The discovery that amino acids can form in more ways than we thought is another boost to the search for life beyond Earth. If ...

Narrated by the soothing voice of the Oscar-winning Morgan Freeman, this four-part natural history series is brought to us by Industrial Light & Magic, employing the finest in next-generation CGI ...

A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six inches long and studded with ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a 6 mile wide asteroid slammed into Earth and erased more than 75% of life on Earth in a geological instant. The catastrophe that ended the age of Tyrannosaurus and ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

DINOSAUR closed on Feb. 2, 2026 in Animal Kingdom after nearly 30 years of operation. Here's what is set to replace this beloved ride.

DINOSAUR closed on Feb. 2, 2026 in Animal Kingdom after nearly 30 years of operation. Here's what is set to replace this ...

When the Chicxulub impactor hit, the animals that had the best chance of surviving turned out to be those with wings. See how new finds are reshaping the story of how birds evolved.

In our recent snow storm, one of my Facebook friends, a distant cousin in Roanoke, Virginia, not very far from where my father was born and his family has lived for many generations, posted a humerus ...

People living on the low-lying shores of the Bristol Channel and Severn estuary began their day like any other on January 30, 1607. The weather was calm. The sky was bright. Then, suddenly, the sea ...