The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of ...

Early super robots focused on giant machines defeating monsters, but later mecha expanded those ideas into stories about ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. One of the ...

Anyone with even a passing interest in Earth’s beauty might feel jealous of Lewis’s sojourn with plentiful tortoises, iguanas ...

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

Based on evidence collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have found that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could ...

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 ...

Genetic analysis of Neanderthals in north-western Europe reveals that this population was surprisingly genetically diverse, ...

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