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Flash back three or four billion years -- Earth is a hot, dry and lifeless place. All is still. Without warning, a meteor slams into the desert plains at over ten thousand miles per hour. With it, this violent collision may have planted the chemical seeds

"Beauty," goes the old saying, "is in the eye of the beholder." But does the beholder have to be human?

University of Michigan researcher Josep M. Pares is part of a team that has discovered the oldest known remains of human ancestors in Western Europe.

Using a revolutionary new camera, UK astronomers have a real chance of being the first to find Earth-like planets around other stars.

A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a University of Washington fish expert.

Three engineering professors at Georgia Tech have created a computer ranking system, called LRMC, that consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than polls, formulas, other computer models and even the tournament seeds themselves.

DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides apparent genetic ties to Siberia or Asia

Images from the twin STEREO spacecraft show, for the first time, a solar tsunami blasting its way through the Sun’s lower atmosphere.

As gas prices continue to soar to record highs, motorists are crying out for an alternative that won’t cramp their pocketbooks.

Robot soccer is an ambitious high-tech competition for universities, research institutes and industry.