A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

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

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

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

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

Earth's slow rotation over billions of years may have played a crucial role in oxygenating our atmosphere. Scientists think ...

NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could ...

Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably smaller than planets. Scientists believe they’re the ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...