At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a spectacular sight from the surface of Mars: The first-ever photo of Earth alongside the ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

Running those numbers, Clarke and his co-authors estimate that of the mile-deep layer of water that may once have been the ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

A rare Bryde’s whale about to consume a heart-shaped baitball and other images of dramatic, weird, funny undersea encounters ...

Clear images of flashing lightning are rarely taken from orbit around Earth because the phenomenon is normally obscured by ...

So far, searches for the hypothetical Planet Nine have yielded no such world. There are many possible reasons for this, one ...