The lectures cover a wide range, from the requirements a planet must fulfil in order to create life, to the first organic molecules that formed on Earth and developed into complex life forms over ...

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...

Learn from John Hopkins scientists what happens when the building blocks of life evolve in extreme ocean worlds.

In a discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's ancient history, researchers have found evidence suggesting that ...

Scientists have proposed a fascinating new idea: Earth may have once possessed a ring system, akin to that of Saturn. These ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.

Sunil Amrith brilliantly portrays how our dominance over nature has been self-serving and destructive, a corrosive ...

In its first edition, a report from the Potsdam ... to evaluate the nine planetary boundaries. These life-support systems make Earth resilient and stable. Alarmingly, six of those boundaries ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

Beyond Barriers writer Sophie Morgan on what it means to be the first British paraplegic woman to experience a zero-gravity ...

When the dinosaurs ruled the land, other reptiles ruled the sea. Some of these reptiles grew to massive sizes and now, ...

Astronomers say that the first rocky planet orbiting an extinct star called a "white dwarf" gives an idea of what the Earth ...