$19.5 billion has been authorized to support a renewed commitment to NASA's manned space program.
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 space agency has been given a set of ambitious new goals which include a manned mission to Mars.
A new joint mission will see astronauts orbiting the Moon for the first time in over four decades.
A new study has cast doubt on the idea that climate change wiped out most of Australia's huge beasts.
Researchers in Brazil have warned that some vampire bat populations have started targeting humans.
The President-elect is hoping to send humans back to the Moon - and beyond - within the next few decades.
Scientists studying bonobos reveal that it is not only humans who suffer from diminishing eyesight.
Dominant hand preference appears to date back to a time long before modern humans arrived on the scene.
The US President has reiterated his efforts to send humans to the Red Planet within the coming decades.
A new study has suggested that humans may be limited to a maximum lifespan of around 115 years.
Elon Musk has outlined his extraordinarily ambitious plans to make mankind an interplanetary species.
Scientists have found signs of bone cancer in the fossil remains of an early South African hominin.
Neanderthal remains unearthed in Belgium's Goyet caves show indications of cannibalistic behavior.
A researcher in the United States believes he has found evidence of a magnetic 'sixth sense' in humans.
New evidence has pushed the arrival of the first humans in the Americas back more than 1,500 years.
Recent studies have suggested that diseases carried by modern humans may have proven catastrophic.
The eerily realistic female humanoid robot has been designed to look, act and speak like a real person.
A large horned beast known as the 'Siberian unicorn' could be the origin of the modern unicorn legend.