For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth’s atmosphere won’t always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists ...

The idea that life on Earth arose through a series of improbable "hard" evolutionary steps may be misjudged, according to a ...

According to the calculations run by Ozaki and Reinhard, the oxygen-rich habitable history of Earth could end up lasting for ...

While scientists largely reject doomsday scenarios often propagated by religions, various scientific researches have ...

Scientists from Oxford University have confirmed the discovery of HD 20794 d, a “super-Earth” exoplanet located 20 ...

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Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

Earth may become uninhabitable in 250 million years due to a superheated supercontinent, Pangaea Ultima, with soaring ...

The scientists used their data to chart where and when plant species emerged or disappeared across Siberia and Alaska.

A University of Bristol simulation predicts the formation of supercontinent Pangaea Ultima within 250 million years, making ...

For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn't always that way – and scientists have predicted that, in the future, the atmosphere will revert back to one that's rich ...

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.