Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.

"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 ...

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

Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission , have revealed new ...

The study highlights the urgent need to safeguard global tropical wetlands from human impact. Complex organisms, thousands of ...

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”, ...

The world's largest living organism is slowing being eaten alive after living on Earth for thousands of years. The Pando is a ...

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

Earth's largest and oldest organism, the Pando aspen tree in Fishlake National Forest in Utah, is being eaten alive by ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, a 106-acre colony of cloned aspen trees is under threat from wildlife and climate change.