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'Perhaps it's only a matter of time': Intelligent life may be much more likely than first thought, new model suggests

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time. When you purchase through ...

Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we're not alone

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. The model, which ...

Astronomers identify a planet that travels through the Milky Way without orbiting the Sun

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...
Nature

Solar System Planetary Science

The Solar System remains a unique natural laboratory for exploring the processes that govern planetary formation, evolution and dynamics. Contemporary research continues to refine our understanding of ...
EurekAlert!

Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we’re not alone

New theory proposes that humans — and analogous life beyond Earth — may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary evolution UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Humanity may not be extraordinary ...