Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising temperatures are once again causing the world’s oceans to turn green.
Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...
When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...
Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world's mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them ...
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...
All this happened about 4.5 billion years after Earth formed ... planet's oceans about a billion years from now. This has inspired the argument that Earth is an incredibly rare planet that ...
Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...
YouTube is about to turn 20. An unusual research method is unveiling statistics about the platform that Google would rather ...
the close approximation between the estimated lifespan of the Sun – 10 billion years – and the time Earth took to produce humans – 5 billion years, rounding up. He imagined three possibilities.
The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...