An Oxford academic has theorized about what might happen if humans were to go extinct and reveals which species could take ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth.

"It's insane that something is from space can have that kind of an impact on our electronics. So we're thinking, okay, how ...

Paleontologist Riley Black traces the cooperation among plants, animals, and ecosystems in “When the Earth Was Green.” ...

Penn State researchers propose that Earth and life have evolved together in a way that is more typical of life-supporting ...

New research reveals how rock strength plays a crucial role in erosion, shaping landscapes over millions of years.

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

Humanlike intelligence would then be a more expected outcome of Earth’s evolution, rather than a cosmic fluke. Researchers from a variety of disciplines, from paleontologists and biologists to ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Megalodon was likely a long, streamlined predator, not a bulky giant. Scientists compared its bones with modern sharks.