Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

The Trump administration's revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio addresses the Munich Security Conference ...

What began as a routine mission to the Moon quickly turned into one of the most dangerous moments in space exploration ...

Gem & Jam — which returned after organizers took time to regroup last year — is where the older hippie heads and aficionados ...

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

Well, imagine walking into a mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and forgetting you’re even on planet Earth anymore because the ...

A series of policy decisions have wracked the U.S. government in early February, including major Environmental Protection Agency repeals, the end of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement surge in ...

The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...