Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain is returning for a second season of Audible’s “The Space Within,” an audio thriller ...

When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Alien launched a decentralized app that verifies users as human without retaining biometric data. CEO Kirill Avery said AI automation and centralized digital IDs create urgent pressure for new ...

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Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania. Now, a study published in Science Advances, lends credence to the ...

This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...

Two different human species meet tens of thousands of years ago. Modern humans, fresh from Africa, encounter their stockier, cold-adapted cousins in what is now Europe. Did this initial meeting lead ...

Researchers have identified gene-regulatory variants that might have contributed to Neanderthals’ beefy jaws — offering a window on how the human face developed 1. This ‘non-coding’ sequence controls ...

An image of early Homo sapiens. Credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann / CC BY-SA 4.0 Scientists studying Neanderthal DNA have uncovered new clues about how human faces form and evolve. By examining ...