Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...

Grab your fedora, leather coat, your whip and plenty of water as you join Historian Dan Snow on a special journey of one of ...

In 2010 the United Nations passed a resolution calling access to clean water a fundamental human right. It wasn’t an idle declaration. “More than 2 billion people don’t have access to clean, safe ...

New chemical evidence preserved in some of Earth’s oldest minerals is challenging long-held ideas about the planet’s earliest geological state. Analyses of ancient zircons suggest that parts of the ...

It’s become a common refrain in South Africa: there’s no drought, dams and reservoirs are full, but the taps are dry. The ongoing crisis has been decades in the making. South Africa is a water-scarce ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

When officials went looking for the source of forever chemicals in the drinking water in Gadsden, Alabama, they determined that it didn’t come from anywhere nearby. On Monday afternoons, Fred Zackery ...

Blue Origin announced on Friday that it would not fly its original New Shepard rocket for at least another two years. The stated reason is to "shift resources to further accelerate development of the ...

A new study has revealed that the iconic Black Beauty meteorite contains much more hidden water than previously suspected. The rock, which fell to Earth from Mars, could reveal clues about the Red ...