A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

Exercising just one or two days a week can reduce the risk of death as much as regular weekly workouts, as long as it totals ...

Perseverance just stumbled upon one of Mars’ weirdest rocks yet—a formation covered in dark, spherical shapes with mysterious ...

ESA has returned the first metal 3D-printed part made in space, a major step toward self-sufficient space missions. The first metal 3D-printed part ever manufactured in orbit has returned to Earth.

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of astronomers over the centuries. Originally discovered in the 1700s by ...

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete for a chance to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Proposals go through ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution. These faint, dusty galaxies were discovered using the deepest ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

Researchers at Brown University's School of Public Health found that Americans have lower survival rates compared to ...

A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys Farrar has ...

Footprints of tail-clubbed armored dinosaurs, ankylosaurids, have been discovered for the first time, thanks to fossil ...

A major new study has revealed that the genes we inherit at birth play a much larger role in cancer than previously ...