About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet.

A SpaceX astronaut mission like no other will lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Here's what to know.

Flares on the sun’s eastern limb will head away from Earth as the sun rotates, but those on the western limb may hit the planet’s atmosphere, Mason says. For now our viewpoint means we can’t ...

It began with the vast, unexplored West, which historian Frederick Jackson Turner described in an influential 1893 essay as "a new field of opportunity, a gate of escape from the bondage of the past." ...

Where Ashton doesn’t give us much of a sense of what life was like on that planet, Bong makes this a focal point, showing how the people fleeing Earth are doing so in order to escape from what ...

Sadly, the strange bird’s speed is removed from the equation when a pair of predatory Sandile ambushes it, forcing the Doduo to resort to extraordinary measures to escape. I’m torn between ...

When Earth's shadow sweeps across the lunar landscape, the temperature plummets. In fact, the resulting "thermal shock" may cause lunar rocks to crumble and gas to escape from within the moon.

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

Rose Tyler wanted to escape her humdrum life. Martha Jones fell in love with the Doctor. Donna Noble realised that she was bigger on the inside. Amy Pond imprinted early on her Raggedy Man.

Unlike the more common ⁴He, which is continuously produced by radioactive decay, ³He is not naturally formed on Earth ... from the early solar nebula is still present inside the planet.

The authors say findings could provide a new line of study into Earth's history and the early origins of life on the planet. What could be the world's oldest-known impact crater has been ...