There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did ...
In the 20th century, scientists began to suspect Earth was a lot older than we thought. It was our old friends/deadly foes, ...
Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...
Over 4 billion years ago, an asteroid called Bennu was drifting through the solar system. Three years ago, NASA brought 121.6 grams of that space rock back to Earth. Scientists wanted to see if the ...
The tiniest life forms are also among Earth’s toughest, from near-invincible tardigrades to extremophilic microbes that thrive near volcanoes and hydrothermal vents. But could some of these itsy-bitsy ...
The Disclosure Day director shares his conspiracy theories and his plan to finally make a western.
Desert locust swarms can stretch 40 miles wide and contain billions of insects. When they descend on farmland, crops vanish ...
New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...
Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...
As Tehran stirred awake, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrived at a leadership compound on Pasteur Street in the heart of the Iranian capital.
Scientists are scrambling to explain why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is carrying life's chemical building blocks at ...
With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...