KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Apollo astronauts set the world record for distance from the Earth more than 50 years ago, but the Artemis II crew broke the record for distance on Monday afternoon as they are ...

The Jiangchuan Biota indicates that we may have misjudged the Cambrian “explosion” of complex life.

Republican allies of the oil and gas industry question the objectivity of an independent report from the nation’s top science ...

It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, before humans and Neanderthals diverged from a common ancestor, a new study ...

Archaeologists have identified seven 115,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert, believed to be the oldest on the Arabian Peninsula. Preserved in a prehistoric lakebed alongside ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...

New fossil discovery reveals 535 million-year-old worms, annelids, that were already crawling and swimming, reshaping early ...