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The human ancestor Homo erectus may have walked similarly to the way modern humans do today, new research shows

A new species of orchid is in a league of its own — not just because it's relatively rare, but also because scientists say it looks like the devil

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo on Thursday began putting on display the country's oldest papyruses, which date back 4,500 years, detailing the daily life of the pyramid-builders.

A blurry white moving object captured by a camera system on the International Space Station has been generating buzz online— especially because the video froze at a curious moment.

A seemingly nondescript galaxy is actually a behemoth cobbled together out of various cosmic spare parts, Frankenstein-style, a new study suggests.

A cluster of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea is giving up some of its deep secrets, as archaeologists have now found 45 shipwrecks there in less than a year's time

Flying through the haze over the pyramids of Giza, an experimental solar-powered airplane arrived on Wednesday in Egypt as part of its globe-circling voyage.

The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and the folks at Gettysburg National Military Park want to remind you not to take any stones from the park.

It was an epic journey that was to end with the world's largest Viking ship making a tour of the Great Lakes.

A new robot stingray can swim with help from an unexpected source: muscle cells that were taken from rat hearts, a new study finds

As people wandered our office halls, hunting tiny monsters with the newly released augmented-reality game "Pokémon Go," Space.com had only one question: Can astronauts play it in space?

A NASA spacecraft has sent back the first pictures since arriving at Jupiter.

Dinosaurs may have been much more like modern birds than we knew—and not just because some had feathers.

Experts have unearthed stunning mosaics depicting Noah’s Ark and the parting of the Red Sea during the excavation of an ancient synagogue in northern Israel.

NASA has released an image of dunes on Mars that bear a striking similarity to Morse code.

A massive fault could trigger a cataclysmic earthquake beneath Bangladesh, parts of east India and Myanmar, new research suggests

Using a telescope at the top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet in our solar system, a body about 435 miles across that lacks a name and that researchers still know little about.

Solar Impulse 2 took off from Seville, Spain early Monday on the penultimate leg of its epic round-the-world journey, a two-day trek across the Mediterranean to Egypt.

Harvard University archaeologist Lawrence Stager has led the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon since 1985, clocking more than 30 years of excavations in a 150-acre site in the ancient seaport 35 miles south of Tel Aviv, reports the Harvard Gazette.

Using a telescope at the top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet in our solar system, a body about 435 miles across that lacks a name and that researchers still know little about.