Throughout its 4.5 billion-year history, Earth has endured numerous mass extinctions, each of which has wiped out more than ...

According to an article published in the journal PNAS, different lineages of amoebae and ancestors of plants, algae and ...

A recent study suggests that by the Neoproterozoic period, distinct lineages of amoebae, as well as the ancestors of plants, ...

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s ...

The winning images will be on display in London this week and feature remarkable shots of insects, birds, reptiles, and more.

Point Nemo is Earth’s official “middle of nowhere.” A lot seems to be going on there.

Yale’s Sunil Amrith explains why historical abuses of the planet for profit are also linked to human injustice — and why he ...

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History combines satellite observations and historical data ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has issued a notice regarding an asteroid approaching Earth today, measuring roughly ...

Researchers have recreated the eerie sound of Earth's magnetic reversal during the Laschamp event, a geomagnetic reversal ...

An international team of researchers with a wide range of backgrounds has found evidence of asteroids providing the compounds ...

Titan likely has the rich chemistry to jumpstart life. But the question is whether its suspected subsurface ocean is simply ...