Nowadays, we're pretty confident about how the dinosaurs died out, but there are still other extinctions throughout Earth's ...

As Earth’s climate changes, one of the hardest things to figure out is exactly how the planet will change in response. And ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

A rock face on the Monte Conero anticline holds many paddle-like footprint tracks packed together on one surface, likely made ...

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again ...

Ancient Moon dust, meteorite traces and Apollo samples are helping NASA scientists rethink where Earth’s water truly came ...

Hidden mega-structures deep inside Earth may have been quietly steering our planet’s magnetic field—and rewriting what we ...

If someone tried to put a price tag on Earth, what would that number even be based on? Land, oceans, ecosystems, raw ...

Travel the planet’s toughest off-road rallies, from Dakar’s endless dunes and Baja’s desert chaos to jungle mud and alpine ...

A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...