If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

Most kids are intrigued by simple things. How much more “down to earth” can you get than the ordinary rock? When we lived on ...