Earth is an exploration of our planet’s history, at the midpoint between an Attenborough and a Prof Brian Cox documentary, and Packham conveys the picture with clarity.

Humanity is conducting a giant chemistry experiment with Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, but is it really unprecedented? Justin Rowlatt tells the story of how our planet was made. Show more ...

From these indirect observations, scientists have calculated that the scorchingly hot inner core, with temperatures ...

Secondly, how utterly astonishing it is given all the topsy turvy, ups and downs, roller coaster history of our planet that that we've actually ended up here. Because it was never prescribed.

New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, ...

On August 23, 1966, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the very first photograph of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon, showing ...

How hot can Earth get? Our planet’s climate history holds clues A tour through the planet’s past suggests the ways life will survive global warming — or not ...

It's seemingly a little capsule of Earth, which is why the structure is called Biosphere 2 – named after our own planet, Biosphere 1.

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...