Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH (Cal Brunker). 89 minutes. For venues and times, see Movies. Despite a story that stretches across the galaxy, Escape From Planet Earth treads nothing but familiar territory.

Bob McDonald's blog: Humanity gets its first glimpse of what happens when an aging star overwhelms a close orbiting planet, just as our sun is expected to eventually do with Mercury, Venus and Earth.

Discover a vast, previously unknown world of microbial life that survives—and even thrives—for hundreds of millions of years ...

Luke Iseman and Andrew Song have a plan to cool the planet, inspired by a science fiction novel, using balloons full of heat-reflecting sulfur dioxide launched into the Earth's stratosphere. But ...

Positioned between the worst mass extinction of all time and the one that finished off the dinosaurs, the Triassic extinction is, understandably, less notorious. But in its own way, it was just as ...