The Earth has gone through many major events over the course of hundreds of millions of years. Some of the most significant ...

Have you ever wondered what the first virus on Earth was? The origins of viral life remain one of the most intriguing and mysterious aspects of Earth's evolutionary history. In this video, we explore ...

Sure, the end of oxygen spells doom for most life on Earth as we know it. However, this is merely a continuation of the planet's ever-changing nature and long history of extinction events.

Paleobiologists at the Smithsonian study fossil animals, plants, and single-celled organisms to understand the biological and environmental history of Earth. The National Fossil Collection at the ...

Life as we know it — plants, animals, fungi, even you and me — depends on something that happened more than 2 billion years ...

Millions of years before jazz filled New Orleans streets or fishing boats were harvesting shrimp in the Gulf, Louisiana was ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ancient asteroid back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of ...

From today, visitors to London’s Natural History Museum can get up close to the Xenomorph egg from FX’s highly anticipated upcoming series, Alien: Earth. Visitors and fans alike can bear witness to ...

Science Space Earth’s oldest meteorite crater found in Australia Move over, Yarrabubba. The new recordholder is 3.5 billion years old. Andrew Paul Mar 6, 2025 11:15 AM EST ...