Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago, ...

Prehistoric sea cows, a mouse-sized opossum, a smiling deep-sea fish and live-birthing toads highlight a year of discoveries ...