Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Bess Kalb writes very good children’s books. The one-time writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live shot to no. 1 on the New York Times ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological ...

Have you ever looked up and wondered why the sky wears a shade of blue? The answer lies in a fascinating science hiding above ...

The Last Kids on Earth and the Destructor's Lair by Max Brallier and Douglas Holgate is the latest in a series of graphic novels published by Viking Press. It will have a 250,000-copy print run when ...

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the researcher points to panspermia, a theory that life or the ingredients for life came ...

Sept. 25 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of more than two dozen Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit early Thursday from Central Florida. The rocket launched at 4:36 a.m.

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...