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 ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

Earth may have had rings. At least that's what a new study published this month claims. Here's what we know so far.

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

This new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking off from its ...

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

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

A new mini-moon—referred to scientifically as 2024 PT5—is set to make a two-month orbit around the Earth this fall. Here’s ...

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

A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...