Scientists have said that in a cosmos filled with trillions of stars, intelligent alien life will form ‘in only a matter of ...

A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

A discovery at the Kavli Institute at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway has uncovered a ...

Most mutations that decreased antibiotic susceptibility were related to specific metabolic pathways. A MIC-increase to ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory ...

The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce.

Aliens probably look just like we do, a new study suggests. This is because scientists now believe life on Earth evolved in a ...

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

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

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...