Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier than some recent theories suggested. By tracing maternal DNA lineages, the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are on their way to the moon. NASA’s colossal Space Launch ...

This story was updated April 2, 2026, to note that after orbiting Earth, Artemis II is now on the trajectory that will take it around the moon. For the first time in more than half a century, humans ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Most of us, if we think about chins at all, do so rarely. But it turns out that chins ...

The Artemis II mission will not land on the moon but will instead circle it to test NASA's Orion capsule. This historic mission will include the first woman, first Black man, and first Canadian to ...

Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. If all goes to plan, as soon as tomorrow, NASA will launch four people on a ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission, which is scheduled for launch on 1 April, aims to send humans back to the Moon for the first time since 1972. If all goes to plan, the ten-day mission will see a crew of ...

In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley called Wadi Moghra. Scientists had previously found ancient monkey remains ...

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A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

Retired NASA Astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly: 'Space exploration matters; Artemis II matters' ...

Dogs were likely domesticated more than 14,000 years ago, a new study published this week found. In the largest study of canine remains to date, researchers from 17 institutions, including ...