Here's a rundown of the science experiments that SpaceX's Fram2 astronaut mission will conduct while orbiting Earth's poles.

Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth - but what has nine months in space done to them?

NASA has revealed the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will depart the ISS at 1.05am EST (5.05am GMT) on Tuesday (March 18), with ...

NASA astronauts are returning to Earth after nine months in space. Experts have said a prolonged period in space can come ...

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age.

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.

Spending months in microgravity is brutal on the body. Without the Earth’s gravitational pull, muscles shrink, bones weaken and bodily fluids shift. Astronauts lose muscle mass rapidly because ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

A group of scientists have discovered the jaw bone of an ancient human species that lived about 1.4 million years ago. The discovery was made in Spain.

IT takes several years to recover from a six-month spaceflight – the average amount of time an astronaut is posted to the ...