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.

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with modern tools but following the original approach, even receiving inputs from ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...

Space agencies and billionaires are still mostly focused on Mars. However, if life exists beyond the Earth but within the ...

NASA and its partners recently tested an aircraft guidance system that could help planes maintain a precise course even while ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward, Earth’s inner core in changing shape.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...