Earth remains the only known planet capable of supporting human life. While colonizing Mars may become a reality with significant technological advancements, setting up permanent life on another ...

Alien life on a new planet “may not have DNA like humans but might walk on two legs”, experts have revealed.. It follows the discovery of an extraterrestrial world around 120 light years away ...

For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth’s atmosphere won’t always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists predict that Earth will eventually undergo a drastic atmospheric shift ...

Human activity has reshaped every aspect of natural life on Earth — from clearing land to acidifying the oceans and filling the air with planet-heating, plant-boosting carbon dioxide.

Life is resilient. The first living things on Earth appeared as far back as 4 billion years ago, according to some scientists. At the time, our planet was still being pummeled by huge space rocks ...

Science. Life on Earth has an expiration date, and we already know how long it is before it ends The sun is a crucial factor for the existence of life on our planet, and as such, it’s bound to ...

While the mass of materials actively used by humans, including concrete, plastic and asphalt, weighed in at 1.15 trillion tonnes. The technosphere weighs more than all life on Earth (trillion tonnes): ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

And, perhaps by considering Earth after us, we can get a realistic understanding of all the ways we’ve shaped and changed the planet, says Alan Weisman, an environmental journalist and author of ...

Humans are living in a geologic era with the most diverse life-forms — the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning about 540 million years, the eon started with an explosion of the modern life we see today.

How ‘Our Moon’ shaped life on Earth and human history. ... A possible new dwarf planet skirts the solar system’s edge By McKenzie Prillaman June 6, 2025. Science News.