Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on Earth after nearly nine months in space and readjusting to ...

A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ...

It may seem like humans are supreme among all of Earth's creatures, but some other species are quite capable of dominating the planet if we were to go extinct.

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a space scientist and presenter of The Sky at Night, says that humans must not be the ... While Aristotle's theory that the Earth was at the centre of the universe ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

The idea that life on Earth could continue without humans leads us to reflect on our permanence as a species. Despite our significant transformation of the planet, Earth’s history shows that no ...

Space is a hostile environment for humans. Even on Mars, settlers might have a hard time coping with potentially lethal ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness ... is why astronauts go up to space in tip-top physical condition. Then, their daily routine ...

After the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction that killed off most of the dinosaurs, for example, the top carnivores ... So are humans capable of driving Earth's cockroaches to absolute extinction?

After 286 days in space, Sunita Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore rank 9th among astronauts with the longest single ...