How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Crops don't generally thrive in desert-like ground, but 1000 years ago farmers in Israel utilised refuse such as ash and ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Elon Musk's internet satellites have been a game changer for people in rural areas, but scientists are alarmed that plans to ...

For decades, scientists have sought reliable ways to reconstruct Earth’s ancient history, deciphering geological events that shaped the planet over millions of years. Now, a surprising deep-sea ...