How El Nino and Mega Ocean Warming Caused the Greatest-Ever Mass Extinction Sep. 12, 2024 — Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...

When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a bright streak in our planet’s sky or a gruesome new wound in its crust.

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

The Juice spacecraft, a European Space Agency mission to visit the icy moons of Jupiter, has just made a world’s first maneuver. This week, the craft swung back to Earth on its way to Jupiter ...

Hans Zimmer shares the tracks that inspired him and his team to create the incredible, original soundtrack for BBC One's Planet Earth II. Would you have what it takes to capture the incredible ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.

The rings of Saturn are among the most famous and spectacular features in the solar system. Earth may once have had something similar.

The Earth has pulled in moons of this type before but none have ever stuck around as long as the moon we know.

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Just like I hope I can make Earth your favourite planet, too. “Oh, Earth’s so overrated. It’s polluted. It’s problematic. I get it. That desire to start fresh. Untainted. So many of us ...