First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible.

A supercomputer may have just predicted when life on Earth will end, and, thankfully, it's going to be a long time from now.

Discover what Earth looked like during the dawn of human life, from its landscapes to climate, and how it shaped early human survival and development. Justice Kagan warns Supreme Court just went ...

Over half of all life on Earth was wiped out, including most of the dinosaurs. Without this, the small shrew-like mammals, which were the ancestors of the Rift Valley apes and all humans ...

In fact, scientists predict that Earth will eventually undergo a drastic atmospheric shift—one that will drive most life, including humans, to extinction, marking the end of life on Earth as we ...

The evolution of humans on Earth may not be entirely exceptional. That is because intelligent life is likely to form if certain planetary conditions are met, a new study suggests. This idea ...

Though scientists have identified exoplanets that share some similarities with Earth, such as being within a star’s habitable zone, none of these worlds have been found to support human life.

The calculated end date for all life on Earth is still a long ways off, but the researchers warn that the potential end date for humans is sooner than we previously thought. According to the study ...

These are the origins of life, photosynthesis, eukaryotes, multicellular animals, and humans. By hard-steps thinking, each of these five things occurred only once in Earth’s history (according ...

That our evolutionary loss of body hair is at the root of this behavior's origins and how it's changed over the hundreds of thousands of years of human existence. University of Warwick's Adriano R.