The SpaceX CEO seems confident that Starship will be ready to carry humans to Mars in the very near future.
Could comet-dwelling trees provide safe, habitable 'bubbles' of life that travel through the cosmos ?
It looks as though we're going to be waiting a little bit longer to see humans walking on the surface of the Moon.
Footprints left 1.5 million years ago show that two distinct relatives of modern humans would have co-existed.
Biologist Prof Tim Coulson has suggested that one species in particular has the potential to dominate the planet.
Creating a colony on Mars would not only be technologically challenging, but also biologically taxing as well.
Inducing 'hypersleep' could help patients with critical injuries or illnesses, among other potential uses.
A detailed analysis of recently discovered fossils has revealed more about these enigmatic pint-sized humans.
Scientists now believe that elephants, like humans, have assigned names that they use when calling one another.
NASA is currently funding a revolutionary new propulsion system that could make it much easier to travel to Mars.
It might be hard to imagine, but many millions of years ago, our ancestors had long tails just like monkeys do today.
The movement, often described as a cult, is based around the idea that humans were created by an alien race.
The huge structure could potentially be the oldest Stone Age megastructure built by humans in Europe.
Viruses trapped in permafrost for thousands of years could potentially thaw out and infect modern humans.
Interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals could account for why some of us are predisposed to be early birds.
The billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Blue Origin envisages a future in which most people live in outer space.
A new genetic data analysis has revealed that our ancestors were almost completely wiped out.
Scientists have discovered evidence of a previously unknown period of low temperatures over 1.1 million years ago.
A professor of molecular biogerontology has indicated that humans could potentially live for much longer than we do now.
An attraction at a zoo in China has gone viral after a confusing video clip was posted on social media.