We don’t know how or why it happened–perhaps a particularly deadly, Homo sapien-specific virus. Or maybe it was a more drawn-out decline brought on by unfettered climate change, escalating conflict, ...

Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if everyone suddenly disappeared? What would happen to all our stuff? What would happen to our houses, our schools, our neighborhoods, our cities?

For most of Earth’s history, ice has been a rarity. Yet, modern humans evolved during an unusually cold period in the ...

An inscription near the entrance of the Yale Peabody Museum’s first-floor galleries declares the overarching themes of the exhibits that follow: “Life changes the environment and the environment ...

Earth has existed for more than 4 billion years without present-day humans. In the past, dinosaurs and cavemen never used its plentiful natural resources. Today, with 8 billion humans on this planet, ...

The idea of humans packing up and moving to another planet has been sold to us for decades as basically inevitable: Mars colonies, space cities, fresh starts somewhere with better views and fewer ...

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier never before explored by astronauts. Reading time 3 minutes Launching rockets ...

Most U.S. adults believe that God gave humans a duty to protect and care for the Earth (66%), and 57% believe that God gave humans the right to use the Earth for humanity’s benefit, according to the ...

If humans were to die out tomorrow, how long would it take for nature to take over and overgrow most traces of our existence? After, like, 10,000 years, would you have to undertake an archaeological ...