For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

Scientists widely agree that an ancient planet likely smashed into Earth as it was forming billions of years ago, spewing debris that coalesced into the moon that decorates our night sky today. The ...

Boffins have been puzzled for decades about two strange blots under our planet, but now some new research could finally be able to explain what the bizarre splats are ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...

Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away as Greece and what’s now Pakistan. Probably driven by ...

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 ...

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 ...

After its debut in the United Kingdom, "Planet Earth III" will soon be available to stream in the U.S. The third iteration of the smash hit natural history series "Planet Earth" continues its ...