A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

Tuesday marked day 45 in the search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie. CBS News' Anna ...

AN AFGHAN war veteran got an army pal to give a DNA sample to avoid paying child support. Gareth Lloyd, 59, had split from ...

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on ...

In statements made as part of lawsuits against the Trump administration's handling of immigration enforcement, NPR found ...

A Marine Raider from Cincinnati, missing since a WWII firefight in 1943, was recently identified through DNA analysis.

Now the Placer County Sheriff’s Office says her name may lead to finding out who strangled Melinda Beardsley and left her for dead in 1977.

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of ...

The Mediterranean Sea is home to some of the ocean's largest animals. Among the nine species of cetaceans commonly found along its western shores are the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus, the world's ...

For nearly five decades, a woman found dead in a California snowbank was known as "Emigrant Gap Jane Doe." Thanks to DNA ...

Paul Quinn, 51, is on trial accused of raping and attacking the woman in 2003. He denies the charges he faces. The alleged ...

Someone spitting into a tube to gain insight into their ancestry — and occasionally their health — is giving away highly ...