This is a significant shift in how we think about the history of life." The post Why human-like life in space may be more ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Scientists have revealed a new model which suggests humanity is the "natural evolutionary outcome" for our planet and is not ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Sen aims to use the story-telling power of video to inspire, empowering everyone to witness planetary change and humanity's exploration of space.

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These ...

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with modern tools but following the original approach, even receiving inputs from ...

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It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...