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

A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

Enough landmines are buried underground worldwide to circle Earth twice at the equator, but the identification and removal of these explosives is costly and time-consuming. New research could help ...

The U.S., Germany and Switzerland are promoting cocoa sustainability amid higher chocolate prices driven by climate changes ...

The Met Office says there may be a chance to see the Northern Lights over the UK this weekend thanks to recent solar activity ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

As the Earth’s climate warms, sea level rise is projected to increase significantly in coming decades. By the mid-2090s the ...

When giant ice sheets that once covered the tropics melted, they produced what paleoclimatologists call a “plumeworld ocean”, ...

But unlike the earth, which has a rotation period of one day, the sun has a differential rotation. That is, all parts of the ...

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...

A NASA rover searching for signs of life on Mars got a clear view of one of the Red Planet’s moons passing in front of the ...