Joel Sartore has spent two decades photographing portraits of animals for the National Geographic Photo Ark. It’s a race ...

"How to Live on Earth," a feature documentary from Open Planet Studios and narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, is set to ...

Hydrothermal vent field. (Schmidt Ocean Institute) If you ask a scientist how life appeared on Earth, they will usually begin ...

How did life go from tiny organisms to large, complex creatures? Scientists see clues in fossils from as far back as 570 ...

All organisms are made of living cells. While it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the first cells came to exist, geologists' best estimates suggest at least as early as 3.8 billion years ago. But ...

An unusual weather pattern brought rare snow to the Atacama Desert, disrupting observatories and transforming one of the ...