The planet Vulcan is no longer called Vulcan in the far-flung future of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, but some characters are ...

In the affluent, technocratic Alexandria Colony, people are disappearing. And witnesses are dying in grisly, mysterious ways—it all reeks of Xenomorphs. At a loss, the Hume City police call in Special ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Kristi Noem, the ousted Homeland Security chief who enforced President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, did not shy away from the spotlight -- or the camera lens.

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

A new study found that when Neanderthals and early humans interbred — a known phenomenon between the two species — most pairings appear to have involved Neanderthal males and human females. This may ...

Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination ...

Three Mexican nationals are facing charges in a human trafficking scheme involving farms in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.The three suspects ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, but telescopes on Earth failed to pick up any radio transmissions ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...