Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

Michaela "Michi" Benthaus and her five teammates, who nicknamed themselves the "Out of the Blue," spent several minutes in ...

The human brain grew from a survival machine into the most complex organ on Earth—fueling language, culture, and technology.

Saturday's launch marked Blue Origin's 16th New Shepard flight with passengers aboard since Bezos, his brother and two others ...

"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.

Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

New research in Yellowstone National Park has found a connection between earthquake swarms and the chemical reactions needed ...

Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, who is paralyzed from the waist down, flew to space on Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...