Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power photosynthesis, which may be because they ...

"We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist," said lead author Dan Mills of the ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Arabia had more rain 400 years ago, and rainfall was still double 200 years ago. Scientists used deep-sea sediments to study ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn ...

What was Earth like billions of years ago? How did life emerge? And how did humanity come to dominate the planet? This video ...

Arachnid evolution involved multiple land transitions, not just one. Spiders and scorpions evolved key traits through gene ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.

There is now a 1-in-32 chance that the space rock will hit us in 2032 – with potentially disastrous consequences ...

Recent research published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta reveals that water reached Earth during the late ...