A female puppy that lived some 15,800 years ago in present-day Turkey has been labeled as the earliest-known dog by scientists in papers published on Wednesday. The remains are nearly 5,000 years older than the previously known oldest dog.
NASA will cancel plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit, instead focusing on the construction of a roughly $20 billion (about €17.25 billion) base on the moon's surface over the next seven years.
It makes sense to squeeze every last drop of milk into our coffee and drizzle the remains of our expensive olive oil over our salad — so we stand in our kitchens, holding bottles or cartons at awkward angles, waiting and watching with varying degrees of patience. How long do we have to wait?
Kelly Chibale founded the Holistic Drug Discovery and Development Centre at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, a facility with everything needed to discover drugs for some of humanity's most intractable ailments.
It makes sense to squeeze every last drop of milk into our coffee and drizzle the remains of our expensive olive oil over our salad — so we stand our kitchens, holding bottles or cartons at awkward angles, waiting and watching with varying degrees of patience. How long do we have to wait?
If you thought that the "I was here" style graffiti is a modern-day phenomenon confined to the backs of bathroom stalls, think again!
If you thought that the "I was here" style graffiti is a modern-day phenomenon confined to the backs of bathroom stalls, think again!
Humans' pull toward alcohol may have ancient origins (according to chimp pee) Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.
The mobile launcher containing the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft arrives at the Vehicle Assembly Building after a rollback that lasted over ten hours at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on February 25, 2026.
NASA is moving a rocket set to send four astronauts into a flyby of the moon off the launchpad. Postponed by NASA several times since it was rolled into launch position in late January 2026, new issues have left the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket unable to take off again.
Space enthusiasts and amateur astronomers will have plenty of action to enjoy throughout 2026, with supermoons, solar eclipses and meteor showers across the night skies. Four eclipses in 2026 February 17. Except for penguins and Antarctic scientists, few will be able to enjoy February’s annular solar eclipse .
Fossils uncovered in Spain could lead to new clues about how dinosaurs evolved, according to a study published on Sunday in the science journal Papers in Paleontology. Fidel Torcida Fernandez-Baldor from the Dinosaur Museum of Salas de los Infantes in northern Spain discovered the fossils, which together represent at least five individual dinosaurs.