But it was one trip to the stars back in 2015 that saw NASA focus on the astronauts focused on as twins, with Scott blasted ...

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

With pollen and common ditch grass seed found both in the footprints and within the same layer of hardened mud in which the ...

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

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.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ...

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 ...

The two NASA astronauts arrived at the International Space Station last June; originally booked for an 8 day stay, but the capsule they were set to ride home in was deemed unsafe, so they were kind of ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

I think this kind of imagination is important. It is incredibly humbling to be forced to reckon with the immensely long ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth after their Crew 9 Dragon Spacecraft splashdown ...

Much was made of the potential health risks that stranded Nasa astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams ...