It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After ...

Research on Titan has uncovered a significant layer of methane clathrate ice that explains its shallow craters and warm interior. This discovery offers new insights into Titan's methane-rich ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

Researchers studying carbon emissions from ancient volcanoes are exploring the geology of large dikes, such as this one in ...

Deep within the Arctic Circle, pocketed between giant glaciers and beneath polar ice floes, Swedish photographer and content ...

Researchers use ~100,000 water-column profiles from BGC-Argo to describe Earth’s phytoplankton carbon biomass and its ...

Asia has the longest coastline of any continent, and the richest coral reefs on Earth. Its seas are connected by some of the ...

A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific understanding, ancient volcanoes continued to spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from deep within the Earth long past their period of ...