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.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Vancouver's Stephen Hamm, known to fans as Theremin Man, has released Live From Planet Earth through Light Organ Records. Learn more and about Hamm and about the album!

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

REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

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

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

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

Small-scale fishers do labor-intensive work, generally in simple, locally owned boats using traditional technologies. Despite ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.