Researchers from Curtin University have dated the world's oldest known impact crater in Western Australia to 3 billion years ago.

Vegetarians need not worry yet—plants will be on Earth for a long time to come. But not forever. The sun will ultimately determine the long-term existence of life on Earth. Its total energy output, called luminosity,

Earth’s rotation is slowing as melting ice moves across the planet. New research says it’s driven by climate change and is unmatched over the past 3.6 million years.

The rock is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood at a zippy 8,768 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

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It’s a bit worrying when a scientific paper begins, “How long will life on Earth survive?” But in this case—a study by Jacob Haqq‐Misra of Blue Marble Space and Eric Wolf at the University of Colorado Boulder—the billion-plus-year timeline under consideration shouldn’t cause you too much existential panic.

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe – but that might take longer than we thought

The good news is that as of this week, you can at least while away the hours by taking to the virtual skies of Google Earth’s Flight Simulator, which is now available in the browser-based version of Google Earth.