For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

STARBASE, Texas — During a presentation, SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk shared how he plans to use Starship to reach the planet Mars, and how in a few short years, there is a chance humans could ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

Isaacman’s second task would be to make sure America wins that second race. Some, such as former NASA Administrator Jim ...

SpaceX is planning to raise tens of billions of dollars through an initial public offering next year, multiple outlets have ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Regarded as the father of medicine, Hippocrates was also the first food historian, exploring human nutrition and linking wisdom to science.

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the south, Australia’s own unique haplogroups appear to descend from the ...

Since humanity's first steps on the moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central objective of international space agencies, targeting long-term extraterrestrial ...

A person in the Washington State has died of avian influenza. It’s the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. since January—but the infection was of a different strain than the one that has been ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially ...