Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

The documentary films and series that captured our attention this year feature famous people and ordinary people, as well as ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.