Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

The largest study ever conducted on the growth of Tyrannosaurus rex reveals that the dinosaur took a far longer and slower route to adulthood than scientists had previously believed.

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

An international study investigating the genomic diversity of the Sudanese population reveals that the Copts originating in ...

NASA uses a vision-language model (VLM) called Claude for the first time to plan two separate drives on Mars for the ...

In fact, more people have walked on the Moon than have visited the deepest parts of our oceans. In this world of constant ...

"I hope they forget all about Artemis 2," Koch told Bill Whitaker of CBS' "60 Minutes," which aired a piece about the mission on Sunday night (Feb. 1). "I think that's a little bit extreme, but we ...

As a cipher of cultural evolution, the music awards show is known for going against the grain. But what were this year’s hero ...

A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.