After two trilogies spanning a couple of decades, Universal is bringing Jurassic fans a fresh start in the world of dinosaurs in modern-day life ...

In a new study, scientists are piecing together the mysterious origins of dinosaurs, challenging long-held beliefs about ...

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars ... an engine − known as a Raptor engine − from ...

A new species of predatory dinosaur that lived in North Africa 95 million years ago has been identified—some 80 years after the only specimen was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.

Subscribe today. It’s a great year for planet-watching. In addition to this week’s stellar views of Mars, stargazers can admire multiple “planet parades”—the simultaneous appearance of ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Venus is another planet that continues dominating the western sky after sunset. Venus and Saturn will have their closest approach ...

Because the quarry is located in an area famed among paleontologists as a hotbed for evidence of dinosaur activity ... to have ended the reign of non-avian dinosaurs, altering the planet's climate and ...

Thawing ice has unveiled remains of a long-lost forest in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, indicating the profound changes that have influenced the area – and perhaps what might lie ahead ...

Could this really be the next step for the franchise? Is Raptor Johansson real? That said, the idea of human-dinosaur hybrids might not be as crazy as it might sound. A few years ago ...

This prehistoric forest thrived hundreds of feet above the modern ... the ice patch has melted — and subsequently provided researchers with a new opportunity to study our planet’s rich geological and ...

What it tells us about the past: This small, clay tablet was likely a tool used to perform rituals at two prehistoric stone rings in northern Japan over three millennia ago. The holes were used ...

Mars reaches opposition Jan. 15, standing high in the south at midnight. Just days before, the Moon occults the Red Planet. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly On the 15th, Mars will shine at magnitude ...