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

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

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 ...

This year is on course to be the hottest on record, with an average global surface temperature more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. But there is some better news: the overall amount of ...

About 232 million years ago, our planet experienced an extraordinary and decisive period for the evolution ... which would dominate the Earth for the next 160 million years.