Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica.

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

The latest climate projections are no longer just abstract warnings about rising seas or hotter summers, they are starting to ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.

And yeah, the presence of two playable characters who both feature their own quests and dialogue options as well as combat styles and skill trees means you basically get two different, but similar ...

The recommendations, adopted at the fourth plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee in October, ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...