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

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

Explore how new research suggests that intelligent life may emerge naturally under favorable conditions over time.

China is assembling a 'planetary defense force' amid fears that an asteroid could strike Earth early next decade. According ...