A fourth major solar flare erupted from a giant sunspot that has been consistently active this week, causing widespread radio blackouts and interrupting GPS communications.

Polynesians would have had to sail 2,300 miles in wooden canoes to reach South America.

Research shows genetic mixing with Native Americans goes back 23 generations

Researchers have found remains of perhaps the most unusual dinosaur known, a sporadically feathered best with no teeth that may have resembled a cross between Jar Jar Binks and Barney.

Two new genetic studies suggest that the ancient Polynesian people who inhabited Easter Island made contact with the native inhabitants of South American long before scientists have generally believed.

Study points to radio-frequency-emitting particles blasted from black holes.

Camera traps in Uganda have captured the first known recordings of “frequent and risky” night raids for food on human farmland, according to a BBC News report. The footage was captured by researchers from the Museum of Natural History in Paris and the Uganda Wildlife Authority and shows how chimps respond to pressures placed on […]

It is the last spacewalk in 2014 as NASA plans a series of spacewalks to prepare the station for commercial travel.