This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

It took more than a century for researchers to prove that Neanderthals were actually quite intelligent and that they ...

An alien virus creates a hive mind. But the story is how the survivors fail to unite—revealing human cooperation's fragile ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

With 3I/ATLAS streaking away from our planet, speculation remains as to whether the interstellar comet is alien or not.

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

Since Viking 1 landed in 1976, humans have studied Mars from afar, relying on rovers and orbiters to analyze the planet. But ...

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential ...