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 ...

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

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

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

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

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with modern tools but following the original approach, even receiving inputs from ...

Penn State researchers propose that intelligent life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere, may be more likely than previously ...

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