Atoms found deep inside our planet argue that parts of “proto-Earth,” the early version of our planet, still survive inside ...

Tom Hiddleston returns as narrator for a bigger, wilder chapter set deep in the Pleistocene. One of Apple’s most ambitious ...

Though it generated beautiful auroras around the world, the Gannon solar storm in 2024 was also a little dangerous.

This episode debunks the popular idea that people in Columbus’s time thought the Earth was flat and that he bravely proved them wrong. It shows how educated Europeans and earlier Greek and Arabic ...

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

Island reptiles are vanishing fast—but scientists are barely paying attention. Here's why that needs to change.

The world has changed dramatically in the decade since leaders celebrated a historic climate agreement in Paris a decade ago, but not quite in ways they expected or wanted. Earth’s warming ...

When you think of moons orbiting around celestial bodies, the first that naturally springs to mind is Earth's own moon. Certainly, that moon is ours – it is firmly locked within orbit around our ...

As the end of 2025 approaches, regular folk take stock of the past year, and maybe ponder their New Year’s resolutions. Climate scientists, on the other hand, have been busy parsing mountains of data ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This tectonic shift reduced volcanic carbon emissions, expanded shallow seas, and ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...