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Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

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

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

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

Two scientists from Toho University and NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet System Science ran computer simulations and found that ...

The Weis Earth Science Museum, Wisconsin’s only dedicated geological history museum, faces an uncertain future as UW Oshkosh ...

In an extraordinary breakthrough, scientists have discovered a massive underwater crater buried beneath the waters of the ...

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

In the Arizona desert, researchers are learning so much more about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity ...

Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...