New data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show temperatures spike more than 20 degrees Celsius just a few meters under Io’s surface, providing the first look at what’s happening below the crust of the ...

Liopleurodon ferox is a short-necked marine reptile that patrolled the seas of what is now England and France some 163 ...

Planetary researchers have found the first evidence that bursts of energetic particles from the Sun could warm the lower ...

Paleontologists in India have unearthed a partial skeleton of a diminutive, previously unknown neosauropod dinosaur from the ...

A new genus and species of cryptobranchid salamander that lived in lakes in Japan about 3.5 million years ago has been ...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of ancient gecko found in two pieces of amber from the 99-million-year-old (mid-Cretaceous) amber deposits in Kachin province, Myanmar. One of ...

In a new review paper, Dr. Gregory Marcus from the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues analyzed decades of research on how caffeine — most often consumed as coffee — affects the ...

A new review of previous studies in the journal Appetite undercuts the popular belief that water fills you up at the table.

Carbonaceous chondrites make up only 5% of meteorites so far sampled on Earth. CO chondrites make up a tiny fraction of that group. They are some of the most primitive and untouched materials in the ...

Paleontologists in China have discovered what they say is the earliest confirmed pieces of amber ever found, a fossilized resin roughly 385 million years old (Middle Devonian epoch) that predates the ...