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.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

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

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

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

That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...

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