Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising temperatures are once again causing the world’s oceans to turn green.

Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power photosynthesis, which may be because they ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs. That one was estimated to be about 6.2 ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

They are chunks of rock, metal or ice left over from the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago. Each night ... Dimorphos about 7 million miles away from Earth, shifting its ...

Author and influencer Ashley St Clair, 26, took to Musk-owned social media site X to announce: 'Five months ago I ... 30 years. 'He sees it as his mission to repopulate the earth, single ...

Two scientists from Toho University and NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet System Science ran computer simulations and found that ...