As the Mahakumbh enters its final week before concluding on February 26, skywatchers and spiritual seekers alike are in for a rare celestial treat. All seven planets of the solar system-Mercury, Venus ...

A rare full seven-planet alignment will be visible in the early night sky between Feb. 22 and 28. We have the tips you need ...

According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

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

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

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

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

When was Pluto discovered? Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory ...

If so, that has important effects for life throughout the universe. It suggests that life might have been likely to form ...