We got to share in a rare moment of collective awe this week as four astronauts blasted off toward the moon, beginning a ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the women’s reservation bill reflects the aspirations of millions, calling for its timely ...

Found in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, the ancient star’s unusual chemistry indicates it formed from gas enriched by a single ...

New research suggests that babies take part in simple, story-like interactions with their parents long before they learn words, helping to build emotional connection and early social skills. The ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Dino-heads on TikTok are chopping up animated footage of the prehistoric beasts (mostly taken from the recent Netflix ...

Stromatolites—and their close relatives, microbial mats—could be mistaken for what seems like a bunch of old dark rocks. But ...

A growing body of research links heavy social media use not only to declines in mental health but to measurable cognitive ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

The new science fiction film adaptation leans heavily on real science done by the National Aeronautics and Space ...

George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam ...

A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth's history, and answering a ...