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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...