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

December 20, 2025, will be remembered as a turning point in the chronicles of space exploration, forever altering humanity’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful of teeth found at the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia suggest that diverse ...

Dogmatism is the opposite of skepticism. It is the proclivity to assert opinions as unequivocally true without taking into ...

Astronomers probed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for alien technosignatures, tracing nine 'mysterious' signals back to human ...

When Peter Parker bonded with the mystical “Spider-Totem” known as The Other, he transcended into something primal and ...

We The People run Indiana, not the bureaucrats,” wrote the Indiana State Senate majority floor leader in a post to his X ...