What was Earth like billions of years ago? How did life emerge? And how did humanity come to dominate the planet? This video ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater lake ...

With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...

Unravel the lessons hidden in the atmospheric tales of our neighboring planets Venus and Mars to gain deeper insights into Earth’s dynamic climate. Join us as we explore parallels, contrasts, and the ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-Smith of ...

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our planet will be around 2.5 million kilometers ( 1.5 million miles) closer to the ...

Millions of people around the world will pause on Tuesday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet ...