Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could ...

What happens when particles from space travel 19 times faster than sound? NASA’s Stardust mission not only captured them but also provided groundbreaking data on comets, space dust, and the potential ...

Are we extraterrestrial? Something was recently discovered by NASA on a near-Earth asteroid. They are Organic Molecules On ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...