Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...

While two Mickeys may be better than one, by the time you get to seven or eight (the idea of Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel ...

Is life as rare as we once believed? A new Penn State study suggests that intelligent life is more likely than previously ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

Explore how new research suggests that intelligent life may emerge naturally under favorable conditions over time.

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

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