A remarkable new palaeontological discovery in Europe could rewrite the history of human evolution.
A crew of astronauts will spend a year in orbit around the Moon as a trial run for a mission to Mars.
Researchers have unveiled details of their latest findings at an important cave site in South Africa.
It has been revealed that the controversial operation will no longer involve patient Valery Spiridonov.
Professor Stephen Hawking is making a documentary about humanity's need to colonize other worlds.
Scientists have found a way to identify extinct species of human by analyzing the sediment inside caves.
A new discovery has indicated that the first humans arrived in the Americas much earlier than thought.
The US President has stated that he would like to see astronauts visiting Mars before the year 2021.
Homo naledi's brain may not have been as big as that of a modern human, but it was still sophisticated.
Scientists have revealed that Homo floresiensis is actually one of the earliest known forms of human.
A new study has linked a prehistoric population of mammoth hunters with some of today's tallest people.
31-year-old Zheng Jiajia decided to marry one of his inventions after failing to find a human partner.
The SpaceX CEO has launched Neuralink - a new company which aims to merge humans with computers.
$19.5 billion has been authorized to support a renewed commitment to NASA's manned space program.
North Island's Whanganui River has been granted the same legal rights and privileges as a human being.
New research has suggested that humans may have been responsible for the formation of the Sahara.
New research has revealed that spiders eat twice as much animal prey as humans do each year.
The 400,000-year-old fossil cranium has been hailed as the oldest discovery of its kind in the country.
The space agency has been given a set of ambitious new goals which include a manned mission to Mars.
Two partial human skulls unearthed in central China could belong to an unknown archaic human species.