Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

A planet with twice Earth's gravity produces creatures with different skeletal requirements, different muscular architecture, ...

The star’s looming death will dramatically reshape the inner solar system, engulfing Mercury and Venus in a fiery sphere. The ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Great apes and humans all laugh with a steady, even rhythm, and a new study finds it has barely changed in 15 million years.

When the sun dies, it will become hundreds of times its current size and engulf the innermost planets. Earth may escape this ...

For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too ...

Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Jharkhand is widely known for its rich mineral reserves and natural resources, but scientists say the State may also hold a far more remarkable distinction. Geological research suggests that part of ...

Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may reflect a world with few large competitors rather than ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...