Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin spoke to Live Science about how human consciousness evolved.

Alien life might look unlike anything we've ever seen on Earth. Trying to find evidence of these unknown organisms will require some creativity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like?

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like ...

Two perplexing structures deep inside Earth might be ancient remnants of our early planet, and they could hold clues about ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

Astrobiology faces the fundamental challenge of searching for extraterrestrial life without a universal definition of life or examples beyond Earth, despite the discovery of over 5,000 exoplanets, ...

According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...