The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

Based on the history of life here on earth, at least one prominent paleontologist thinks that complex life in the cosmos is ...

EVOCATION Earth, 114 million years ago, one morning just after sunrise: The first flower ever to appear on the planet opens up ...

Similar to the Cosmic Perspective, The Primate Perspective offers us a more grounded and rational understanding of who we are ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

NASA aims to land at the Moon’s south pole by mid-2027 while sending humans on a scientific mission to Mars as early as 2035, aiming to decode the potential for human life on the red planet.

Their mission could "change the way we look at the possibility of life on other planets too," the researchers say. The initial discovery confounded marine scientists. It was previously accepted ...