P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...

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.

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

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 ...

Radioactive spike found in Pacific seabed samples. It could be from space radiation or changes in ocean currents 10 million ...

What was Earth like billions of years ago? How did life emerge? And how did humanity come to dominate the planet? This video takes you on a journey through time, unraveling the mysteries of Earth’s ...

Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power photosynthesis, which may be because they ...

A team of researchers has found an unusual spike in beryllium-10 levels in the Pacific seabed, dating back 10 million years.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs. That one was estimated to be about 6.2 ...

“The parade of the planets in 2025 is one of the best line-ups we’ve had for 45 years ... million kilometers) — about two-fifths of the distance between Earth and the sun — though the ...