Hawaiian stargazers got a particularly special treat recently.
"Archaeologists did not expect to find such well-preserved structures in such a harsh setting," geologist Yves Fouquet said.
With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive
Like a mood ring, clothing could let future space travelers know when they've been exposed to unsafe levels of radiation.
Interbreeding across species lines is one way helpful genes can spread into a bird population.
Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet.
Researchers recently discovered an extremely small frog species in Brazil
The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new clues about where these raiders came from.
"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together."
Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is now eastern England around 400,000 years ago. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal sites in what is now northern France dating to about 50,000 years ago. The discovery was made at Barnham, a Paleolithic site in Suffolk that has been excavated for decades.