The first human mission beyond Earth orbit in more than 50 years is underway with an April 1 launch of four astronauts on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists now recognize more than a dozen species in the Homo genus. So what, exactly, was the first human species? The answer, ...

Four adventurers suited up and embarked on a first-of-a-kind trip to space Monday night, becoming the first humans to fly in polar orbit aboard a SpaceX crew capsule chartered by a Chinese-born ...

A Canadian teenager has been hospitalized with bird flu, the first human case of H5N1 in the current outbreak detected in the country. A teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized with a ...

They’re seeing what no human has seen before. The first civilian astronauts to orbit Earth’s polar region revealed the breathtaking view of the gleaming “pure white” tundra in the first-ever video ...

As the world reflects on the 65th anniversary of humanity’s first journey beyond Earth, Teitel’s work serves as a powerful reminder: the future of space exploration is inseparable from its past, and ...