Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

A new study has upended a long-held theory that asteroids brought water to Earth – as it turns out it may have always been ...

Diamonds are formed deep within the Earth about 100 miles or so below ... in India were brought to the surface at least a billion years ago and perhaps longer ago. So we're comfortable saying ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

A faint cosmic spin – one rotation per 500 billion years – could resolve the stubborn Hubble tension by tweaking standard ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

For millennia, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Savannas and forests are often thought of as the cradle of our lineage, but ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

At 28 years old, he was already known in newspapers ... earning him the media title of “Fastest Man on Earth.” It was true: At the time, no train, car, bike or plane had achieved such a ...

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren star in the first-ever Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's musical.

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...