What will the world look like in 2100? This question is central to a new free online game called FutureGuessr. Launched in ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

A NASA-led study has now confirmed that the end of life on planet Earth will be through the lack of oxygen, and not by an extraterrestrial occurrence. According to a Toho University study that tries ...

Now, NASA scientists working with researchers in Japan believe they’ve come closer than ever to predicting the planet’s final ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...

TL;DR: Researchers from the University of Tokyo and NASA used supercomputers to predict Earth's habitability will end around 1 billion years from now due to increasing solar heat. The Sun's expansion ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: Abiogenesis—the emergence of ...

An alien invasion is about to hit FX on Hulu. Mark your calendars! Alien: Earth will debut with two episodes on Aug. 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on FX and Hulu, and will air every subsequent Tuesday until the ...

Millions of years ago, a fiery plume rising from Earth’s mantle reshaped continents, closing ancient seas and lifting land that would forever change life on our planet. This upheaval forged a bridge ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

The question of when life began on Earth is as old as human culture. “It’s one of these fundamental human questions: When did life appear on Earth?” said Professor Martin Whitehouse of the Swedish ...