While an icy Earth is uncommon, it is all that modern humans have known. But these icehouse conditions may have provided a beneficial push for human evolution across our planet.

New studies, which utilized AI to monitor the effects of climate change on Earth's spin, have shown that our days are getting increasingly longer and that our planet will get more wobbly in the ...

It may not be the robots that will rule Earth when humanity goes extinct. ... The octopus is predicted as the creature most likely to rule the planet if humans become extinct.

Earth is approaching a critical moment in the future habitability of the planet. Credit: NASA images by Reto Stöckli, based on data from NASA and NOAA ...

The answer is all about perspective. Humans are pretty tiny creatures living on a really large sphere. An average adult is between 5 feet and 6 feet 6 inches tall (1.5 to 2 meters), and kids are ...

Earth has existed for more than 4 billion years without present-day humans. In the past, dinosaurs and cavemen never used its plentiful natural resources. Today, with 8 billion humans on this planet, ...

Humans are living in a geologic era with the most diverse life-forms — the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning about 540 million years, the eon started with an explosion of the modern life we see today.