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

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

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

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth's inner core, previously thought to be solid and unchanging, has experienced ...

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

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...