We live in an era of 24-hour news cycles that primarily focus on the negativity of this world. It can leave many of us ...

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.

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 ...

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.