A massive asteroid impact could darken skies, disrupt climates, and potentially plunge Earth into a new ice age, a chilling possibility scientists are now studying more closely, with growing concern ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its ...

Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue foretells of a miraculous child who is to bring a new golden age of peace, renewal, and cosmic ...

The world's two gigantic ice sheets are in greater peril from global warming than previously thought, a study published May 20 says.

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

A solar radiation storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago, showering the planet with high-energy particles and leaving a spike in ...

At the end of the last ice age, the Earth was hit by the strongest solar storm ever known. If something similar occurred ...

It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice ...