Could Earth have hosted an advanced civilization before humans? This intriguing question is at the heart of the Silurian Hypothesis, a theory that challenges our understanding of Earth’s history. By ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists in Southeast Asia have unearthed ancient boats and tools that challenge the ...

Global temperature increases over the past thirty years, visualized. Credit: NOAA/NCEI Earth's average global temperatures have been steadily increasing since the Industrial Revolution. According to ...

The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light-years distant. Yet despite the odds, scientists insist that continuing the ...

It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but there’s no one accepted answer. And according to one new paper, the chances that ...