Elana Glowatz

Humans domesticating dogs is not what made our best friends sensitive to being treated unfairly — if anything, being around humans has reduced that instinct.

There wasn’t much technology to examine dinosaur fossils when this megalosaurus was discovered, so scientists did a 3D scan and found something hidden in the bones.

If humans start a Mars colony and live there for generations, will their descendants ever be able to visit Earth? Not if they eat too many insects along the way.

The seven Earth-sized planets in the Trappist-1 solar system formed as their pieces moved toward the star and ice melted into water.

Fossils of ancient human bones dug up in Morocco could be from Homo sapiens, which completely contradicts what we thought we knew about our evolution.

Recent claims that the fearsome T. rex actually had feathers shook dinosaur lovers, but it turns out the image of a scary predator with scales all over is the true version of the T. rex.

Scientists have taken close-ups of fish lips to figure out how this species can suck food off corals without getting stung. The secret is a kiss covered in mucus.

NASA has unveiled a Mars rover concept that looks like the Batmobile and is built to dominate an alien planet.

The risk of astronauts developing cancer might be double what scientists have thought previously because the radiation in space and on Mars makes cells attack one another.

When one star took a fatal dive into another dying star, it set off an explosive reaction that created an object even colder than space itself.

As soon as human societies stopped wandering as hunter-gatherers, their lifestyle of raising crops and domesticating animals took a toll on the environment.

Ancient Mars could have had enough water to fill up a large ocean and many rivers flowing into it.

A bunch of volunteers found a faint object in space that scientists missed: a brown dwarf that is halfway between a star and a planet.

A teen buried in a trash pile at an abandoned human settlement called Witch Hill had bone cancer, and archaeologists don’t know why the child was put there.

Primates were living in trees early on in their history, based on the prehistoric skeleton fossils scientists have found in America.

Hurricane season started today and will go for the next six months, during which time scientists are forecasting months of heavy storm activity.

British space companies might have to set up shop in EU countries if they want to keep working with the European Space Agency on certain projects after Brexit.

Living in a colony on Mars sounds like it would be fun, but in reality it would be a terrible lifestyle, the head of the European Space Agency says.

A prehistoric protein discovered in a dinosaur fossil was actually from a modern ostrich, so our hopes of using it to recreate dinosaurs and make a real-life Jurassic Park are as dead as they are.

Events on Earth like tornadoes and earthquakes are nothing compared to the dangers of our solar system, our galaxy and our universe.

A massive planet with rings larger than Saturn’s keeps eclipsing its young star and might have moons that are the right temperature to support alien life.

Scientists analyzed ice from a mountain glacier to find that a medieval plague made people sick enough that they stopped polluting the atmosphere and environment with lead.

A fire burns differently in space, so NASA is going to light up the space station to watch the flames burn — for purely scientific reasons, of course.

An analysis of DNA taken from ancient Egyptian mummies shows they were genetically closer to Asians while modern Egypt has more African genes.

A spooked snake regurgitated its meal to get away from a couple of humans. Its prey, another snake, was still alive and managed to wriggle away.

CRISPR gene-editing technology might be able to remove a genetic disease, but it can also cause hundreds of unpredictable DNA mutations.

Humans settling Mars or living in a space colony might evolve into a new species much faster than they would have on Earth, assuming they can avoid the dangers of inbreeding.

Men who listen to women and pick up on their sexual signals are more likely to find a mate, according to this little-known evolutionary theory.

Scientists now know what it looks like when a ladybug folds and unfolds its wings, and it could be important for engineering.