Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.

Snowball Earth theory gets a boost from Colorado rock findings Tava sandstone formation provides key evidence for global ice ...

A supernova close enough to Earth could strip the ozone layer and cause mass extinction, but no immediate threat exists.

But before Darwin published his groundbreaking work in 1859, other scientists were already trying to explain the diversity of life on Earth. One such scientist was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a French ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

How a folding of time into gesture and process combine in paintings that wrestle with the disjunction between reality and ...

Auroras occur in an upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere called the ionosphere, but they typically originate with activity on ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of a massive, half-full ephemeral lake in Australia's Great Sandy Desert.

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

If you didn't know, Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. Let's explain ...

Jupiter is known to be the biggest planet in our solar system, although, the fun fact is that it is incredibly different from ...