For Paul McCartney, this is personal archaeology; for everyone else, it's a rediscovery of something half-forgotten, music ...

Clues from archaeology, climate records, and genetics reveal the pressures Neanderthals faced during their final millennia.

Scientists have proposed a shocking new theory for the origin of the moon, and their calculations suggest Earth once had a ...

Scientists have long struggled to peer into Earth’s earliest biological history, limited by the fragmentary nature of fossils ...

Tia here with news that a trial of the pill form of the GLP-1 drug semaglutide has failed to delay Alzheimer's progression in ...

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...

The long-awaited photos, snapped by multiple NASA spacecraft between September and mid-October, show a tiny, glowing orb ...

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life. Binary star system Eta Cassiopeiae, located just 19 light-years away, ...

The massive Olympus Mons volcano on Mars—one of the solar system’s highest peaks—may have towered above a Martian ocean in the distant past, a new study suggests. The research identifies an escarpment ...

Each cell in a plant, animal, or person contains millions, or even billions, of DNA base pairs—molecules connected by hydrogen bonds that are the building blocks of DNA. These base pairs collectively ...