Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...
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 ...
A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.
On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...
Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
Scientists have identified an anomaly linked to the rise in beryllium-10 levels in ocean sediments on the Pacific Ocean floor ...
Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...
A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...
Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...