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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

A prevailing theory in the scientific community, known as the "RNA World" hypothesis, suggests that life may have originally ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University College London research builds on years of efforts to trace the origins of Earth’s early genetic materials.