Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.

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.

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

How many aspects of our galaxy are still unknown to us? In actuality, many secrets in this cosmos are gradually being revealed as a result of technological ...

The accident, where more than 80 tons of radioactive waste were released by an explosion, spread large amounts of nuclear ...