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The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.

There, a team of archaeologists has discovered human-made rock art older than any other reliably dated example, with a…

Scientists have identified the world’s oldest known rock art — a hand stencil created at least 67,800 years ago in Indonesia.

This artwork, nestled in a cave in southeast Sulawesi, is also the earliest archaeological evidence of modern humans…

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require intense heat to form and these “dirty snowballs” spend most of their time in the…

Fragments of a 2.6 million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in northeastern Ethiopia are transforming the picture of early human evolution in Africa. The jaw, from a bipedal hominin — an extinct relative of humans — shows that its kind…

While most snakes retreat deep underground to avoid subzero temperatures, some populations of Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis face a risk their biology is barely equipped to handle: accidental freezing. Yet, under very specific conditions, a…

A 130-million-year-old fossil site on the Dampier Peninsula in Western Australia has reshaped global understanding of dinosaur diversity during the Early Cretaceous. Initially highlighted through Indigenous custodianship and environmental…

Suni Williams, one of two Nasa astronauts whose 10-day test flight mission turned into a nine-month odyssey on the International Space Station (ISS), has retired from the US space agency.

The 60-year-old former navy captain left in December after…

Star formation can feel like a distant, abstract concept, until you see it mapped across a landscape of gas and dust. A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope looks at the the N159 star-forming complex within the Large Magellanic Cloud,…

NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the agency’s website on January 16.

The affected groups have historically offered feedback to the space agency on science…

The forest may be glowing—at least to deer

By Anirban…