As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

A new study upends that belief, proposing that human evolution was merely a natural planetary process that can and likely has occurred on other Earth-like planets. It’s a common belief among ...

Bigger than Planet Earth? The Americas just might be. That is the verdict from the creative team behind NBC’s Tom ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

One of the driest places on Earth, featuring unique rock formations, salt flats, and high-altitude geysers, resembling Martian landscapes. A vibrant hot spring known for its rainbow-colored bands ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start ...

Researchers present an alternative to the long-held “hard steps” theory to explain the evolution of complex life, suggesting ...

Earth's oceans are mysterious, largely unexplored places, but the enormous oceans of Neptune and Uranus have them beat.

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...