Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman said the mission astronauts were "locked in" as their capsule circled the Moon and started ...

For over six centuries, the Shroud of Turin has been a cherished Christian artifact. Millions have gazed upon this faint image of a crucified man, seeing the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth, while ...

A chimpanzee female (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) sleeps in a nest built in a tree in Uganda's Kibale National Park. The ...

The distance Orion will travel during the Artemis II moon flyby will let the crew see the entire lunar disk, including ...

Using the oldest dog genes studied so far, scientists are finding more evidence that our furry friends have been our ...

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate ...

Early human relatives experienced risky childbirth due to pelvic shape, revealing deep evolutionary roots of birth difficulty.

Progovac's study challenges two dominant narratives in human evolution: "survival of the fittest" (physical strength) and "survival of the friendliest" (prosociality). While both played a role, ...

When they awoke aboard the Orion spacecraft, the astronauts were approximately 169,000 miles from Earth and closing in on the ...

Pushing back the domestication timeline by 5,000 years via ancient DNA, a new study suggests that dogs lived with humans ...

A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys.