With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in surprising and fascinating ways.

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

The Great Oxygenation Event, which occurred around 2.4 billion years ago, was one of the biggest transformations of our planet. Before it, there was practically no oxygen in the atmosphere; after, ...

Scientists widely agree that an ancient planet likely smashed into Earth as it was forming billions of years ago, spewing debris that coalesced into the moon that decorates our night sky today. The ...

Smithsonian researcher Wriju Chowdhury is part of an expedition searching for 4-billion-year-old crystals that could uncover the secrets behind Earth’s early history Emma Saaty A remote geologic ...

After its debut in the United Kingdom, "Planet Earth III" will soon be available to stream in the U.S. The third iteration of the smash hit natural history series "Planet Earth" continues its ...

A stunning new photography book, “TIME Planet Earth: An Illustrated History”, captures the natural miracles of the world we live in The residue of an ice storm glazes a beech tree, pushing its ...

How long have you been creating nature documentaries? I’ve been working in this industry for four decades. I didn’t start making natural history documentaries—I started making my own short films, more ...

The article details five notable impact craters on Earth: Meteor Crater (Arizona, USA), Chicxulub (Yucatán, Mexico), Vredefort (South Africa), Tnorala (Gosses Bluff, Australia), and Nördlinger Ries ...

These hand-picked National Geographic stories show how the world is bracing for—and embracing—its future. Around the world, forests face existential threats from deforestation, climate change, pests, ...