Stephen Hawking spent decades warning that humanity faces a simple choice: spread beyond Earth or risk total extinction. The theoretical physicist argued that threats ranging from artificial ...

"I want it to be thought-provoking," says director Susanne Brandstaetter, about the IFFR-debuting film. "I want people to be emotionally touched and think about what they're hearing and seeing." By ...

The new research reveals that small population sizes and random birth patterns raise the fertility threshold needed to avoid extinction. Credit: Rafael AS Martins ...

Dinosaurs are not the only predators that have walked the Earth. Nearly 252 million years ago, when Earth witnessed the "Great Dying" mass extinction, a beast continued to survive and thrive during ...