A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Seismic wave data previously suggested the Earth’s hot inner core is slowing its spin. Now, researchers say it’s also ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet’s history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

Extreme Planet Earth has been announced today and will be coming to ITV1 and ITVX (as well as STV and STV Player) next year, ...