The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

Sailors fighting in the dance hall, oh man, look at those...data from the InSight lander.

The hurricane jumped three Safford-Simpson hurricane categories in less than a day, and scientists now propose a new factor that contributed to the storm's evolution.

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of the timing of ancient populations' movements and interactions.

Unexploded ordnance from the world's deadliest conflict continues to affect daily life 80 years after it ended.

A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 billion years ago.

The lunar lander is a pinprick in this sweeping image taken from lunar orbit.

It now takes just a fraction of a minute to detect neutron star mergers, thanks to advancements in a machine-learning-driven approach to astronomy.

The behemoth A23a calved in 1986 and has been drifting across the Southern Ocean for the last five years.

The little rodents' genes were edited to exhibit traits associated with a woolly mammoth genome—including fluffy, dirty-blonde fur.

The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory.

Water was present just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to a new study, shaking up the timeline of planetary evolution.

About 10% of the NOAA workforce was laid off, according to some reports, in a move that could kneecap the agency's ability to forecast local and national weather events.

NASA satellites spotted five tropical cyclones churning in the Indian and Pacific Oceans late this month, revealing different points in the storms' developments.

A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.

The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in April.

The document builds on the academies' decadal survey, outlining recommended missions for NASA's next New Frontiers program.