A 1.2-million-year-old jawbone uncovered in northern Spain show that humans reached Western Europe far earlier than previously thought, scientists say.
A California aerospace company unveiled a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes of more than 37 miles (60 kilometers) above Earth.
A section of Antarctic ice seven times the size of Manhattan has broken away from a large ice shelf. Scientists say it is a sign of continued global warming.
The world's tallest man, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk, who measures 8 feet, 5 inches (2.5 meters) tall.
Hawaii's Halemaumau Crater is ejecting lava for first time since 1982. Officials say they are monitoring the activity and warning aircraft of ash clouds.
Hydrogen sulfide and methane welling up from the oceans did not trigger the "Great Dying" that wiped out the vast majority of life around 250 million years ago, scientists say.
A huge rift on Saturn's fifth-largest moon suggests that the seemingly ordinary satellite hosted a subsurface ocean billions of years ago, researchers announced.
No one was injured, but parts of the popular Hawaii Volcanoes National Park were shut down after an explosion atop the long-erupting Kilauea volcano rained gravel-size rocks over a large area.
Saturn's largest moon may have a subterranean ocean of water and ammonia, map data suggests—raising the probability that the moon could potentially harbor life.
New images showing spots in unexpected places near Jupiter's poles could help explain what powers the gas giant's spectacular "hyper-auroras," a new study says.
"Echoed light" from a powerful supernova is just now reaching Earth. What's puzzling scientists is why people apparently didn't see the original explosion some 400 years ago.
