Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

If you thought the mass extinction caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact 65 million years ago was bad, think again. Travel ...

A you-are-there documentary cuts between Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition, which was all filmed, and the 2022 attempt to ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

Researchers have discovered strong evidence from rocks in Colorado that Earth was covered in ice and snow around 700 million years ago, a period known as 'Snowball Earth'. The study, led by the ...

This is where we are right now. Today, they dig deeper, to help us see new layers of a problem and start to solve it.

The "boring billion" shaped multicellularity, with energy demands sparking complexity. This era shows evolution's cost.

“Instead, mollusc or mollusc-like animals might be the pioneers of these early excursions onto land which date back to the ...

The existence of “Snowball Earth” is now widely accepted, but the idea ice coverage was universal is so extraordinary and ...