Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

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

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

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

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

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

Researchers created a curve of global mean surface temperature throughout deep time, providing context for understanding ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring system long ago, created from the debris of a passing asteroid that our planet tore ...

The tech magnate and Sarah Gillis have become the first commercial astronauts to complete the difficult feat, which was one ...

2024 is shaping up to be the hottest year in recorded history, leaving its predecessors in the dust. Unyielding scorchers, it ...