"We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist," said lead author Dan Mills of the ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

When a star explodes it can have drastic consequences for the area of space around it, destroying or altering entire systems ...

According to the calculations run by Ozaki and Reinhard, the oxygen-rich habitable history of Earth could end up lasting for ...

Researchers present an alternative to the long-held “hard steps” theory to explain the evolution of complex life, suggesting ...

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

Scientists challenge the idea that intelligent life is rare. They argue that evolution follows planetary changes, not random ...

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

Fluctuations in ancient Earth’s environment might have propelled the chemical complexity that laid the foundation for life.

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

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