In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

The idea that the seeds of life may have originated on another planet is far from new, but is there any value to it?

Scientists have discovered where Earth's water comes from, and say that it wasn't brought to the planet by asteroid impacts ...

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a ...

Corinthia Black studies the anatomical features of fishes and spiders to understand how life on Earth takes shape ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

The US oil and gas giant is “privileged” to operate its export plant in a biodiversity haven off the WA coast. But the ...

The all-female crew are back on Earth after reaching space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket ... disc-free edition of Sony's console has increased by roughly £70 since it first went on sale.

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

This case appeared to me so remarkable that I discussed it at some length in my “Origin of Species;” but I do not expect that anyone who has less faith in natural selection than I have ...