As resistance increased, humans began moving into high-risk areas. Around 14,000 to 13,000 years ago, people started living ...

Earth Day, which began in 1970, is celebrated each year on April 22.

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

The largest great ape cognition dataset combines 18 years of studies to reveal patterns in learning, memory, and intelligence ...

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

The Artemis II astronauts, all in their 40s or 50s, flew a little more than 4,000 miles from the Moon, higher above the ...

HBO has released a new trailer for its most polarizing fantasy series, House of the Dragon, before it returns for Season 3.

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria.

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

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — More than 50 years have passed since humans visited the moon, and history was made on Wednesday as NASA launched its crewed Artemis II for a flyby of Earth’s lunar sister.

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon’s surface to begin ...