Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

For decades, large portions of the human genome were labeled "junk DNA." New research from Western University and London ...

A new genetic study published in the journal Cell is filling in some important details about the earliest inhabitants of ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

A landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe had temperate forests that could have sustained Stone Age people ...