A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

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

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

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

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

Penn State researchers propose that intelligent life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere, may be more likely than previously ...

It was, of course, a great joy for me when we could confirm the planet’s existence,” said Dr. Cretignier. “It was also a ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Dark oxygen, a newly identified form of oxygen, raises questions about life in extreme environments and its implications for ...