Depending on your definition, the Earth features many "biggest" living things. Today we're looking at where they stack up ...

The world's largest living organism is slowing being eaten alive after living on Earth for thousands of years. The Pando is a colony of cloned aspen trees that sprawls across 106 acres between ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

The African Elephant is the largest land animal on Earth with adult males attaining heights of 11.5 feet (3.5 m) and weighing more than 13,000 pounds (5,000 kg). Their tusks can grow to 8 feet (2.5 m) ...

Giant clams grow huge by relying on algae for energy. Scientists found genes that help them live with algae and grow big.

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

Study indicates that Bennu’s parent asteroid developed or accumulated material from a reservoir in the outer solar system ...

There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn ...

Climate change is wreaking havoc across the globe, upending weather patterns and the Earth’s hydrological cycle with often dramatic effects on some of the largest water bodies. 2024 was the hottest ...

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...