New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

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

Scientists have said that in a cosmos filled with trillions of stars, intelligent alien life will form ‘in only a matter of ...

A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...

The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million ...

The lights over the rail line in South Carolina have become a local phenomenon, said to be carried by the ghost of a woman ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

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