About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...

Neil Young has opened his entire music and film archive to the people of Greenland for free, offering six decades of work as a gesture of peace, respect and cultural connection.

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

The global river crisis is worsening. Learn about the causes behind the decline of vital waterways and their significance.

If someone tried to put a price tag on Earth, what would that number even be based on? Land, oceans, ecosystems, raw ...

Researchers used satellite data to calculate and simulate the sea level in a canyon, getting a glimpse of a huge ocean.

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Todd McFarlane's Spawn dug deep into the core of the titular antihero, resulting in a tragic yet compelling watch.

New research shows ancient tropical oceans once held more oxygen than cooler regions, reshaping where early life could survive and evolve.

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...