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 ...

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates as "bedsheets" in Portuguese and refers to the rolling white dunes that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere for the first time, revealing a layered system of extreme winds.

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 ...

Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...