DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one ...

The Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain (ERNEST) test rover has been put through its paces with great ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his ...

Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

The Alien franchise has become synonymous with the deadly Xenomorph, with the predatory alien race becoming utterly iconic in ...

The X-Men are officially meeting the deadliest aliens in the universe in a crossover that'll make superhero and horror fans ...

Ancestry test results now tell people, almost as a fun fact, that they carry a sliver of Neanderthal DNA. It has become a quirky line in a family report, a souvenir from a chapter that feels safely ...

A new study disproves “Human Revolution.” There was not a single moment in time in which homo sapiens suddenly advanced.