Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet ...

Rising from raw earth and wood, a breathtaking 2-story villa takes shape using skills passed down through generations. Handcrafted with ancient techniques, it looks more enchanting than any modern ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

From desert carvings to underwater ruins, these ancient structures are so advanced that experts still can’t agree on what ...

Current conditions in Japanese hot springs give clues as to how some of these ancient microorganisms survived and adapted.

Two tiny ingredients in ancient seawater – nickel and urea – may explain why oxygen arrived late on Earth. A team in Japan ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event. Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we now experience. There were no forests and no animals. For ancient ...

Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been unrecognizable to us. At that time, ancient microorganisms were the dominant life form; there were no animals, no plant life, and certainly no ...

Starring leading man Gerard Butler as John Garrity, the head of his fractured family trying to survive a comet strike on Mother Earth, 2020's " Greenland " was a totally enjoyable asteroid-based ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

According to one hypothesis, the comet is responsible for giving humans the swastika symbol, thousands of years in the past.