Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...

The results revealed a clear sequence. Enzymes predating cannabis showed no ability to process CBGA. The first enzyme unique ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a mysterious human ancestor.

Giant DNA viruses that infect eukaryotic cells are thought to have played a role in the evolution of life, according to the ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution.