You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible. As we continue to ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

Elon Musk's interest in sending humans to Mars is no secret − and he has a plan (and vehicle) to do it. The billionaire founder of SpaceX, who has been thrust into the spotlight for his association ...

The death of primatologist Jane Goodall has marked the end of an era in science, but from her we learned to always hold hope in humanity. Yet before she passed, she left us with a final warning about ...

Alien: Earth suggests a future where consciousness isn't confined to the body you're born in, but is this a realistic ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from outer space—specifically via a collision with a Mars-sized planet billions of ...