Fram2 will be the company's first astronaut mission to land in the Pacific Ocean. Its predecessors all splashed down off ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

The planet Earth thawed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The Moon was created when a Mars-sized object crashed. If there ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

This week marks the arrival of Earth Month, and with it the inaugural Reel Wild New York Film Festival. Running April 4-5 at ...

SpaceX made space history, as four astronauts were launched into a pole-to-pole orbit not traveled by any human before them.

Earth Day has been celebrated across the country for more than 50 years now, and the annual celebration is once again around ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

NBCU's Toby Gorman and BBC's Michael Gunton on why NBC decided to bring natural history to broadcast TV with 'The Americas.' ...

Kick off your EarthFest journey in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, open to visitors from 11 am until 4 pm. The Identification Stations are particularly exciting, allowing children to bring their own ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.