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 study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

A team of researchers has found an unusual spike in beryllium-10 levels in the Pacific seabed, dating back 10 million years.

YR4 has a 2% 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.

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...