Today, only the largest planets in the solar system have rings, but a new study suggests Earth may have been a ringed planet ...

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

Evidence from Colorado suggests glaciers once covered Earth to the equator, supporting the Snowball Earth theory. This ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

Jane Huang, a mother-of-one, said a government official who called her went so far as to probe her about when her most recent period was. The 35-year-old, who lives in the province of Fujian ...

Global warming caused vital Atlantic Ocean currents to collapse just before the last ice age, a new study suggests. The weakening currents triggered a cascade of effects, resulting in a dramatic ...

Between 635 to 541 million years ago, during the Ediacaran Period, Earth witnessed a remarkable emergence of early life in the form of multicellular organisms. These weren’t just tiny microbes; some ...

I crave chocolate around the time of my period. Why does this happen? And how can I deal with it? Many studies have found that American women report craving chocolate around menstruation ...

Jessica is a writer on the Wellness team with a focus on health technology, eye care, nutrition and finding new approaches to chronic health problems. When she's not reporting on health facts, she ...