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.

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 ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes.

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

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

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

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

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

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 ...