A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and limit global heating to 1.5 ...

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

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

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

Pandora uses the Transit Method, where a planet passes in front of its host star, allowing starlight to filter through its atmosphere. This technique helps identify: Exoplanets are more than just ...

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system developed with gas giants far from our sun, some planetary systems consist of ...

An initial observation campaign at λ=15 µm revealed a temperature of 503 K on the day side of the planet TRAPPIST-1 b, suggesting the absence of an atmosphere and a very dark surface. However, based ...

The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January — and the fact that ...