While our solar system is a fascinating place on its own, exoplanets are even more of a mystery. And one exoplanet in particular is something quite new.

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.

In a groundbreaking shift to our understanding of life’s origins, a new study from Penn State University challenges the ...

New research suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for photosynthesis.

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.

A Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early this morning (Feb. 15), rising ...

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

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 ...

Jeff Bezos' aerospace company, Blue Origin, is laying off about 1,000 workers, according to media reports. Blue Origin CEO ...