Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen and Victor Glover with the Orion capsule they flew on the mission after splashdown. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls On April 10, the Orion capsule carrying Reid ...

In the fourth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines the ...

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

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 ...

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

James Webb data reveal pristine gas irradiated by energetic light some 450 million years after the Big Bang — a sign it may ...

New genetic results reveal a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous Americans carry remnants of a "ghost lineage." ...

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The Artemis II mission fulfilled the original objective planned during Trump's first term and has origins in prior ...

With 15,000 satellites crowding the sky and hundreds of thousands more planned, we may soon have a cataclysmic mess overhead.