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

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

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

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary process rather than an improbable event.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

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

These indicators of human technology and industrial ... These are obvious signs that Earth has intelligent, spacefaring life. Technosignatures are any observable traces or clues that point to ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

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

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

The International Space Station orbiting approximately 250 miles above Earth is both a marvel of human creativity and ...

Heavy metal contamination in Yangshan Port raises concerns for seafood safety, with arsenic and mercury posing health risks.