Earths

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Earth is home to an estimated 8.7 million species. Creatures of all sizes and…

Earth’s oceans may not have always been as brilliantly blue as they are today. In fact, there may have been…

While life on Earth does usually find a way, it is not without some intense past–and future–periods of mass death.…

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially…

During a cataclysmic mass extinction event, there are typically not many places to hide. However, a region of the mountainous…

Earth is absorbing more sunlight and trapping more heat than it releases into space, causing our planet to warm up…

You’re probably familiar with classic sauropod dinosaurs – the four-legged herbivores famous for their long necks and tails. Animals such…

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the…

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide…

When we talk about mass extinction events, the first case that usually comes to mind is when an asteroid struck…