Just one hour at the shore of Lake Karachay would be enough to kill. The radioactive lake, located in the southern Ural Mountains in central Russia, was a dumping ground for nuclear waste from the ...

TL;DR: NASA astronaut Don Petitt captured a stunning long exposure image from the ISS, resembling a scene from "Interstellar." The photo, taken from the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, shows star ...

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But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A new study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

Life on Earth may have been kickstarted by 'microlightning' created by crashing waterfalls and ocean waves, a new study has revealed. Tiny 'microlightning' sparks are generated when water droplets ...

someone who studies ancient living things and how planet Earth has evolved over millions of years. Dr Neil Clark, a real life palaeontologist, shows a range of fossils including colonial coral ...

Photo: Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images Hugs with family, grilled cheese and sneaking in a run—the NASA astronauts who were posted up in orbit for months are getting used to life back on Earth.