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 ...
Scientists from Oxford University have confirmed the discovery of HD 20794 d, a “super-Earth” exoplanet located 20 ...
YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.
A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...
Earth may become uninhabitable in 250 million years due to a superheated supercontinent, Pangaea Ultima, with soaring ...
A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.
Rising temperatures make plants lose more water, weakening their ability to absorb carbon dioxide and survive heat stress.
Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...