A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

It is very difficult to know exactly the history of the Earth. For millions of years, the planet was inhabited by species ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full ...

Nasa is offering a $3 million reward for a solution to manage the human waste left behind on the moon over 50 years ago. The ...

BEIJING -- The latest discovery from rock samples returned by China's Chang'e 6 lunar mission reveals that the moon's mantle contains less water on the far side compared to the near side, suggesting ...

NASA is offering $3 million to anyone who can invent a way to “recycle” dozens of bags of poop astronauts left on the moon more than half a century ago. The space agency wants to come up with ...

It took just 1 hour and 40 minutes for the moon's shadow to race more than 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers) across the continent.

A new genomic study has uncovered long-lost genetic diversity in mammoth lineages spanning over a million years, providing new ... 1.3 million to 125 000years ago. The findings, published in ...

The message has been sent towards the Messier 13, a globular cluster of up to half a million stars packed together ... damaged and was shut down a few years ago, so the message has already ...