Planets lacking plate tectonics and sufficient carbon dioxide and oxygen could make advanced civilizations like ours ...

(NewsNation) — Astronomers and other scientists have concluded that, with so many stars in the universe, there must be planets around some of those stars that support carbon-based life. And some of ...

The Mayans were incredibly advanced — that’s nothing new. But gauging the extent of their civilization has always proved tricky, since so much of it lies hidden by the impenetrably dense rainforests ...

On Earth, it took over 3 billion years for intelligent life to evolve. The planet went from having at least 6 percent carbon ...

Breaking through the icy veil of Greenland, a revolutionary discovery has been made that reshapes our understanding of the ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics. Science fiction has its fair share of ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is regularly plagued by the fact that humanity has a very limited perspective on civilization and the nature of intelligence itself. When it comes ...

In context: Radio waves from distant galaxies are too faint to provide meaningful data for potential space observations. However, a sufficiently advanced alien civilization could harness energy in ...

Sometimes, the easy calculations are the most interesting. A recent paper from Balázs Bradák of Kobe University in Japan is a case in point. In it, he takes an admittedly simplistic approach but comes ...

Every time new climate research is published, news headlines are posted or tweets are shared, a giant steel box perched on a granite plain in the Australian state of Tasmania will be recording it all.