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

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

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

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

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

Throughout its 4.5 billion-year history, Earth has endured numerous ... such as organisms' altering of Earth's atmospheric chemistry. Yet life often bounces back. In fact, in the long term ...

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

Two of the most intriguing questions in science are: How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you might expect that ...

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

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

But that change, Godfrey-Smith argues, isn’t a break with the history of life on earth. Instead, he contends, the human activities reshaping the earth — destructive as they may be — are part ...

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