Unveiling the Origins of 'Hobbit' Humans

NASA's VIPER rover was designed to seek out water ice at the lunar south pole for future astronauts. The heavy presence of fishermen in India's Lakshadweep archipelago could affect the transition from flirty to flight. Scientists have found water in soil samples collected from the moon by China's Chang'e-5 probe.

Archaeologists have discovered a 700,000-year-old bone fragment of a diminutive, archaic hominin on Flores Island, Indonesia; this provides clues about Homo floresiensis, an extinct human relative nicknamed "hobbit" due to its small stature, which may have evolved through island dwarfism of Homo erectus ancestors that arrived on the island 1 million years ago and became smaller over time, with evidence of their existence as recent as 18,000 years ago sparking a media sensation; University of T..