People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Earth, captured once a day by the EUMETSAT meteorological satellite, have been time-lapsed. (video looped) Credit: Simon Proud / NCEO / EUMETSAT ...

E ver since 1966’s premiere of the first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, the entertainment world has never been ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

Iron Maiden have written songs about dinosaurs, the Second World War and many, many things in between. So, here’s the history of Planet Earth as told through the metal legends’ lyrics.