Hunter-gatherers cremated the headless body of a woman in a pyre around 9,500 years ago in what is now Malawi.

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of the century.

A new DNA analysis of the mummies of historical Indigenous Yakuts reveals resistance to 17th-century Russian conquest.

A new study reveals that nerve cells receive periodic infusions of mitochondria from neighboring cells and this may point to a new way of treating nerve pain.

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

It feels like every time we publish an article about an exciting discovery of a potential biosignature on a new exoplanet, we have to publish a follow-up one a few months later debunking the original claims. That is exactly how science is supposed to work, and part of our job as science journalists is to report on the debunking as well as the original story, even if it might not be as exciting. In this particular case, it seems the discovery of dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b was a false alarm, according to a new paper available in pre-print form on arXiv by Luis Welbanks of Arizona State University and his co-authors.

It was a question I heard lots this past weekend. Whats that bright star near the Full Moon? That star was actually a planet, as Jupiter heads towards opposition rising opposite to the setting Sun this coming weekend. This places the King of the Planets high in the northern sky, in the same general spot the Full Moon occupies in January.

The Keplers supernova remnant continues to expand and expand.

That space rock took out a lot of horny dinosaurs, or at least a lot of species with horned ancestry.

The debate over where we come from gets an important new update.