A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowned the Guinness World ...

One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning ...

It may look like an innocent green plant, but its name evokes something far closer to a robot or interstellar rocket.

Flash floods, mudslides and falling trees have killed at least 14 people in Sri Lanka as the island nation is battered by ...

California firefighters aided by aircraft battled a wind-driven wildfire burning Saturday in an area straddling the San ...

A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon Sunday to collect soil and rock samples that could provide insights ...

Last-minute computer trouble nixed Saturday's launch attempt for Boeing's first astronaut flight, the latest in a string of ...

Delhi is reeling from the most extreme heat wave India has ever seen. While the record-breaking maximum recorded temperature ...

Giraffes, with their distinctive body shape and variations in coat patterns, have long been an example in evolutionary ...

After its "birth" in the Big Bang, the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a few helium atoms. These are the lightest ...

In the small fishing village where I grew up, we didn't have much. But we helped our neighbors, raised our children to ...

Astronomers from the Stanford University in California have performed joint X-ray and optical observations of a massive ...