Scientists have determined that chimpanzees descended from a common ancestor that predated humans.
Far from being an invention of the modern world, atheism has actually been around for thousands of years.
It might not be immediately evident, but humans are actually the only animals on Earth with a chin.
New evidence suggests that Genyornis newtoni was wiped out because it was tasty and easy to catch.
A prominent paleoanthropologist has suggested that we may eventually develop gills and live underwater.
Author Logan Streondj has calculated the point at which robots will outnumber Earth's human population.
The European Space Agency believes humans will be living on the lunar surface within the next 14 years.
Congress has insisted that NASA create a prototype deep space habitation module by no later than 2018.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is concerned that another world war could ruin efforts to send humans to Mars.
Japan's super-realistic 'Geminoid' robots are so convincing that some people can't tell the difference.
The International Space Station has made it possible for humans to maintain an ongoing presence in space.
A new science video has been exploring what might become of our species over the next few centuries.
Our tendency to not get enough sleep at night is seemingly not an exclusively modern phenomenon.
Anthropologists have discovered 47 human teeth in a cave in Southern China that date back 80,000 years.
The space agency has outlined its plans to see humans living on Mars within the next three decades.
Vitaly Yegorov has managed to raise over 1 million rubles online to fund a new lunar satellite mission.
New evidence suggests that Australia was once home to huge reptiles that lived alongside early humans.
Scientists have determined that early humans had very different hearing abilities than we do today.
A 3.5 million-year-old bacteria found in Siberia could make it possible for humans to live longer.
The SpaceX CEO proposed the unconventional idea as a way to terraform the planet for humans to live on.