Geologists have discovered compelling evidence for preservation of Hadean rocks -- dating back to 4.16 billion years old -- in a complex geological sequence called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, ...

Using data from several space- and ground-based telescopes, NASA astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the Andromeda galaxy, which is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way.

Rice was a staple crop in the ancestral Austronesian regions of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia, but it was unknown in any of the Pacific Islands at the time of European encounters, with the ...

Astronomers have analyzed a statistical sample of 111 edge-on disk galaxies at various periods -- up to 11 billion years ago, or approximately 2.8 billion years after the Big Bang -- using archival ...