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The insects had been in decline until people started cramming together in the first large settlements

The 2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit (H2M2) will be held May 28 and 29 in Washington, D.C., and will include panels discussing the future of human space exploration.

SpaceX will launch the 9th test flight of its Super Heavy Starship rocket hours after CEO Elon Musk delivers an update on his company's plans to make humans an multiplanetary species.

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is a temporary anomaly rather than an indication that global warming has reversed, scientists say.

Research into the impacts of rocket and satellite air pollution is being cut by the Trump administration. Experts say the cuts come at the worst time.

From the aptly-named carrion flower to the stinking corpse lily, these plants thrive through disgusting odors

Jupiter teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on May 27.

The world's poorest nations face a "tidal wave of debt" as repayments to China hit record highs in 2025, an Australian think-tank warned in a new report Tuesday.

The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter argument that followed has consumed the lives of scholars ever since