“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the ...

Rising temperatures are fueled, in part, by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate feedback loop.

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

Candidates under 35 with master’s degrees in astrophysics, aerospace science, or earth and space exploration technology are ...

Captain America: Brave New World is nominally a political thriller in which the new Captain America (Anthony Mackie, taking ...

The PRI is an independent non-profit organization started about 100 years ago. It opened the Museum of the Earth in 2003 and operates the Cayuga Nature Center. In 2004, Cornell University and the PRI ...

A NASA scientist has predicted where a huge asteroid - the size of Big Ben - could potentially hit Earth in seven years' time.